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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Gittern, git′ern, n. a kind of guitar, a cithern.—v.i. to play on the gittern.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
He could let blood, cut hair, and shave, could dance, and play either on the ribible or the gittern.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Give me thy gittern, Isa," said the boy, a ruddy-faced youth, with gray eyes and auburn hair; "let me play the air that Réné, the troubadour, taught me yesterday.
From Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Brooks, Elbridge Streeter
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 Bennett, John
There was a flute, a viol, a gittern, a fiddle, and a drum; and behind the curtain, just outside the door, Nick could hear the master-player's low voice giving hasty orders to the others.
From Master Skylark by Bennett, John
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