cithara
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cithara
C18: from Greek kithara
Example Sentences
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In fact, Nero often played a type of lyre called a cithara.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2023
Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2017
In the rites of Dionysius the chorus was fifty and the cithara was used instead of the flute.
From The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. by Anonymous
All the dialogue was delivered in a musical voice, and, it is thought, all accompanied by the cithara, which every player carried in his hand.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
The lyre, with which Baccio Ugolino as Orfeo accompanied himself, may have been a cithara, but the probabilities are that it was not.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
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