gittern
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gittern
C14: from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Old Spanish guitarra guitar ; see cittern
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"Get your currycomb, and we'll make a wager of it," replied Robin, unslinging his gittern, while some of the old sailors crowded round the challenger, and voted it a fair challenge.
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall
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.
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall
Dost thou not see that for pleasure four several things combine, Instruments four, harp, hautboy and gittern and psaltery?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
I can only suppose that the author considers that the fact of the gittern and citole being sounded by plucking the strings, brings these instruments into alliance with the harp.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
In his hands was a gittern which had been hanging on the wall above him, and he played upon it, softly, a sweet and plaintive air.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
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