mandolutes

Noun

mandolute (plural mandolutes)

1. A musical instrument similar to a mandolin, but larger.
   • Not content with flailing at the playwright and the movement that had nurtured him ("the little theater of cheesecloth and mandolutes"), De Voto attacked the Theater Guild, charging that its resources and prestige, its "power to compel the admiration of multitudes," where chiefly responsible for...2002, Louis Sheaffer, O'Neill: Son and Artist, page 460