gittern
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gittern
C14: from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Old Spanish guitarra guitar ; see cittern
Example Sentences
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A viol overhead took up the time, the gittern struck a few sharp notes.
From Master Skylark by John Bennett
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
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
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
But in the morning at breakfast there was a gittern at Nick's place--a rare old yellow gittern, with silver scrolls about the tail-piece, ivory pegs, and a head that ended in an angel's face.
From Master Skylark by John Bennett
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