(n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) As she said, that wasn’t to recreate prim antiquity, Roman or Tudor: the lutes, citterns , fiddles, and droning pipes of the standard Globe ensemble are tavern instruments anyway – music for a pub knees-up – and the North African imports are only a bit wilder.
Mandolin
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Mandoline
Example Sentences:
(1) We thus add a new perspective to Corot's Gipsy Girl With Mandolin-a subject with arthritis, a painter knowledgeable about arthritis, and a painting that therefore might be understood at least in part from an appreciation of the artist's specific illness.
(2) I use the wide side of the grater or the mandolin for this, although those with better knife skills than me should be able to do a good job of it that way.
(3) Kefalonia is known to millions from the best-selling novel, and later film , Captain Corelli's Mandolin .
(4) If you have one, a mandoline is the ideal tool for cutting the vegetables as thin as you want them.
(5) Crushed root vegetables with crisp brussels sprouts You’ll speed things up considerably if you cut the sprouts on a mandoline (or with the slicer attachment of a food processor).
(6) To make life easier, invest in a mandolin: they make slicing veg thinly much quicker and easier (the veg slicing attachment on a food processor will also save on slicing time).
(7) The ingredients rhubarb 30g, finely sliced (ideally with a mandoline) water 100g organic strong white bread flour 50g organic wholegrain rye flour 50g "The rhubarb has natural yeast and acts as a catalyst to start the fermentation," explains Gellatly.
(8) I was like the bomb expert, Miller, had my little box of tricks – [drum]sticks, a mandolin.
(9) If you have one, use a mandolin to cut the vegetables into even lengths.
(10) We noted hand deformities characteristic of inflammatory arthritis in Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Gipsy Girl With Mandolin (1870 to 1875), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
(11) 150ml olive oil 5 shallots, peeled 500ml carrot juice 500ml fresh orange juice 175ml cider vinegar 10 slim organic carrots, peeled and scrubbed and sliced on the mandolin A few sprigs of lemon thyme A pinch of salt 1 avocado, thinly sliced A handful of coriander leaves A handful of salad leaves 1 First, confit the shallots.
(12) Serves 4 6 tbs olive oil 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 rounded tsp cumin seeds, roughly ground 125g fresh coriander, chopped and stalks set aside 250g small brown or puy lentils 1.75 litres water a squeeze of lemon sea salt and black pepper For the caramelised onions: 300ml sunflower oil 2 large onions, halved and sliced into rounds as thin and even as possible (we recommend using a mandolin) To make the caramelised onions, heat the oil in a large saucepan until very hot.