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cithern

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cithern: see cittern cittern (sĭt`ərn), stringed musical instrument of the guitar family having an oval body, a flat back, and a fretted neck.
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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.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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