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Medieval musical instrument resembling a guitar
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gittern
Word definitions for gittern in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French guiterne , from Latin cithara , from Greek kithara (see guitar ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gittern \Git"tern\, n. [OE. giterne, OF. guiterne, ultimately from same source as E. guitar. See Guitar , and cf. Cittern .] An instrument like a guitar. ``Harps, lutes, and giternes.'' --Chaucer.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings [syn: cittern , cithern , cither , citole ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A relatively small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, a predecessor of the guitar, that originated around the 13th century and came to Europe via Moorish Spain. vb. To play on the gittern.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The gittern was a relatively small gut strung round-backed instrument that first appears in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England). It is usually depicted played with ...
Usage examples of gittern.
The fourth fellow followed with a pack tied across his back, a gittern hanging upside down upon it, and a spotted dog in his arms.
The one with the bold eyes, who had carried a gittern and a little spotted dog with a Welsh name.
He strummed his gittern with the ease of long acquaintance, and stared straight at Isolde.
Is it so hard being mistress of a grand castle that you covet a life in the wildwood with only your lute and gittern and pipes to sustain you?
She bent once more to the five-stringed gittern, grimacing when she formed the chord Reevius had taught her.
Had she lowered her eyes and drawn her hand free of his, he would have picked up the gittern and begun the lesson she wanted.
This time the performance of the minstrels had been more boisterous than before, with tambourines and drums in lieu of gittern and lute.
Better to fetch the gittern, she consoled herself as she made her way on shaky legs to his chamber.
He managed to close the door without slamming it, and lay the gittern aside.
He finished smothering the fire and, grabbing the gittern, he followed her inside.
The warmth must have reached him, for as she reached the chorus, he shook himself, and suddenly his harp joined the jaunty chords of her gittern as his voice joined hers in harmony.
He gazed at the Palace for a moment more, then picked up the case holding his good gittern, squared his shoulders, and headed for the door.
He looked back down at his gittern, and at the leather traveling case.
Stef stood up, collected his gittern and music case from where they were propped beside the door, and slipped out into the hallway, still completely at a loss for what to think.
As he stepped away from the door, he glanced automatically toward the right side of the hearth, beside the bedthe servants always left his luggage there, and he wanted to make sure his gittern was all right before he went to bed.