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cittern

Noun

cit=tern

WORDNET DICTIONARY

cittern(n = noun.artifact) cither, cithern, citole, gittern - a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings; Array

is a kind of guitar

cittern, n. [L.cithara, Gr. kiqa`ra. Cf. Cithara, Gittern.].

An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. Shak. [1913 Webster]

" Not to be confounded with zither." [1913 Webster]

cittern, n. hist. a wire-stringed lutelike instrument usu. played with a plectrum.

Etymology

L cithara, Gk kithara a kind of harp, assim. to GITTERN

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