gittern

[ git-ern ]

noun

1. cittern.

gittern

/ ˈɡɪtɜːn /

noun

1. music an obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling the guitar Compare cittern

Word History and Origins

Origin of gittern¹

C14: from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Old Spanish guitarra guitar ; see cittern

Example Sentences

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.

From Literature

Mr Galpin places the citole in the same class as the gittern. 

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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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