
1) Cither 2) Cithern 3) Cittern 4) Early dulcimer 5) Gittern 6) Guitar 7) Guitar family instrument 8) String instrument
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1) Cithern 2) Cittern 3) Gittern 4) Lute
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Citole, also spelled Sytole, Cytiole, Gytolle, etc. (probably a French diminutive form of cithara, and not from Latin cista, a box), an archaic musical instrument, similar and a distant ancestor of the modern guitar of which the exact form is uncertain. It is generally shown as a four-string instrument, with a body generally referred to as `holly....
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• (n.) A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.
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(from the article `cittern`) ...stringed musical instrument that was popular in the 16th–18th century. It had a shallow, pear-shaped body with an asymmetrical neck that was ...
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Cit'ole noun [ Old French
citole , from Latin
cithara .
See Cittern .]
(Mus.) A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer. [ Obsolete]
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The citole was a musical instrument, a kind of dulcimer.
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