gittern
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of gittern
C14: from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Old Spanish guitarra guitar ; see cittern
Example Sentences
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Mr Galpin places the citole in the same class as the gittern.
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As he resumed his journey, he might have been taken for a gipsy minstrel, for suspended round his neck was a small cracked gittern, retaining only two strings.
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"Nay, my lord, rather let me try the gittern," she said.
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It was the practice, as we have said, when a customer was waiting for his turn in a barber's shop to pass his time playing on the gittern.
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Ferne, with a slight laugh, stooped to pick up the fallen gittern.
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