Dobro

[ doh-broh ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of acoustic guitar commonly used in country music, usually played on the lap and having a raised bridge and a metal resonator cone that produces a tremulous, moaning sound.

noun

, plural Do·bros

1. (lowercase) any guitar of this type.

Dobro

/ ˈdəʊbrəʊ /

noun

1. an acoustic guitar having a metal resonator built into the body

Example Sentences

His scuffed-up hands, the way he smoked his cigarettes, the gleaming silver of his dobro guitar, his habit of showing up on a Harley every five years with a new girl on the back.

From Los Angeles Times

In the late 1980s, Mr. McReynolds toured and recorded with the Masters, a bluegrass supergroup that included the fiddler Kenny Baker, the dobro player Josh Graves and the banjo player and guitarist Eddie Adcock.

From New York Times

His scuffed-up hands, the way he smoked his cigarettes, the gleaming silver of his dobro guitar, his habit of showing up on a Harley every five years with a new girl on the back.

From Los Angeles Times

“Dad told me that Dylan picked up a dobro and was swinging it around in a circle over his head,” Luther Dickinson says with a laugh.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Oelze adorned it with several emblems of the club’s past: a statue of deceased doorman William Edwin “Pudge” Tarbett in the dance hall and a mural of the dobro played by the Seldom Scene’s Mike Auldridge on the outer wall.

From Washington Post