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Japanese lute
Answer for the clue "Japanese lute ", 7 letters:
samisen
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Word definitions for samisen in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of shamisen English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Samisen \Sam"i*sen\, n. [Jap.] (Mus.) A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Japanese three-stringed instrument, 1610s, from Chinese san-hsien , literally "three-strings," from san "three" + hsien "string."
Usage examples of samisen.
Here the Yoshiwara seemed to be slumbering, but not far away the houses and bars on Main Street were bubbling, the night young with the noise of men laughing and raucous singing, the occasional twang of samisen and laughter and pidgin mixed with it.
The head clerk summoned him, scolded him severely, warning him never to do such a thing again, and took away his samisen.
Whenever Shunkin played it Tenko sang out joyously, straining its voice to rival the beauty of her samisen.
Besides studying the samisen under Sasuke, Teru helped the blind couple in many ways, both as a guide and as a kind of link between them.
In the next room, which was the finest of all the rooms in the tea house, the only one with a garden of its own, Kiku picked up the long-handled samisen.
At this point, the dumb girl put down her samisen and took up a bamboo pipe from which issued weird cadences and, though it was by no means the climax of the play, this dance was the apex of the Professor's performance for, as she stamped, wheeled and turned to the sound of her malign chamber music, Lady Purple became entirely the image of irresistible evil.