gittern

American  

[git-ern] / ˈgɪt ərn /

noun

1. cittern.

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gittern British  

/ ˈɡɪtɜːn /

noun

1. music an obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling the guitar Compare cittern

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Etymology

Origin of gittern

C14: from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Old Spanish guitarra _guitar ; see _cittern

Example Sentences

He ducks under his table, picks up a gittern—or maybe it's a lute, I can never tell the difference—and plucks a few notes.

From Literature

Whereas the interpolated chapter ii. is concerned with instruments—the gittern and citole—whose tones are alterable in pitch by “stopping,” i.e., altering the length of the vibrating part of the string. 

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

"Nay, my lord, rather let me try the gittern," she said.

From Project Gutenberg

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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