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cithern

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cith·ern  (sthrn, s-)
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
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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