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gittern
[ git-ern ]
gittern
/ ˈɡɪ³ÙÉœË²Ô /
noun
- music an obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling the guitar Compare cittern
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Origin of gittern1
C14: from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Old Spanish guitarra guitar ; see cittern
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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.
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Mr Galpin places the citole in the same class as the gittern.Â
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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.
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"Nay, my lord, rather let me try the gittern," she said.
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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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