[Ads-l] antedating of "bandalore"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I.e., a yo-yo.  OED: 1824.

>From Newspapers.com:

1792 _Evening Mail_ (London) (Jan. 16) 3: To the KING, a pair of
eighty-league boots. ... To the little DAUPHIN. a bandalore.

1819 _Northern Sentinel _ (Burlington, Vt.) (Oct. 29) 1: Simple pleasures,
the entertainment of cup and ball, or bandalore.

OED & MW offer no etymology. There may, however, have been some obscure
reference to the British siege of Bangalore, India, in 1791. The name
sometimes appeared as "Bandalore."  There are several mentions of
racehorses named "Bandalore" beginning in 1792.

The  _Evening Mail_ didn't feel it necessary to define the word.

JL

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