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Word entry · 7 letters

gittern

Best crossword clue

"Medieval guitar"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɪtən/Part of speech nounSorted eginrttStarts with GEnds with N1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English giterne, from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern.

Used in a sentence

  • Now they can no more hear thy ghittern’s tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.

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