cithern


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cith·ern

 (sĭth′ərn, sĭth′-)
n.
Variant of cittern.
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Noun1.cithern - a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire stringscithern - a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
citole, cittern, gittern, cither
guitar - a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
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Immediately a prelude of pipe, cithern, and viol, touched with practised minstrelsy, began to play from a neighboring thicket, in such a mirthful cadence that the boughs of the Maypole quivered to the sound.
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The watercolour, now in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge, features a golden-haired woman having her hair dressed while music is played on a cithern (a 16thcentury instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox) by a male youth.
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I take up an unadorned cithern in desolate defiance,
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