banjore

'No, my dear, it is called a banjore; it is an African instrument, of which the negroes are particularly fond.

Belinda 1801

"No, my dear, it is called a banjore; it is an African instrument, of which the negroes are particularly fond.

Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Juba had composed, in his broken dialect, a little song in honour of his master, which he sang to his banjore with the most touching expression of joyful gratitude.

Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Juba went to work immediately to make a banjore, I find.

Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808

She accepted the banjore with a smile that enchanted Mr. Vincent; but at this instant they were startled by the sound of a carriage driving rapidly into the park.

Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Juba went to work immediately to make a banjore, I find.

Belinda 1801

She accepted the banjore with a smile that enchanted Mr Vincent; but at this instant they were startled by the sound of a carriage driving rapidly into the park.

Belinda 1801

Juba had composed, in his broken dialect, a little song in honour of his master, which he sang to his banjore with the most touching expression of joyful gratitude.

Belinda 1801

In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune, and time; and they have been found capable of imagining a small catch [Footnote: "The instrument proper to them is the _banjore_, which they brought here from Africa, and which is the origin of the guitar, it's chords being precisely the four lower chords of that instrument."

Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. William Priest