cithara
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cithara
C18: from Greek kithara
Example Sentences
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In fact, Nero often played a type of lyre called a cithara.
From Scientific American • Aug. 9, 2023
Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.
From New York Times • May 30, 2017
"By a stronger concentration, I will have sublime poems, eternal monuments; and all matter will be penetrated with the vibrations of my cithara."
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave
All the dialogue was delivered in a musical voice, and, it is thought, all accompanied by the cithara, which every player carried in his hand.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
The lute and cithara, from the opposite side, took it up.
From Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists by Lee, Jennette
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