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cit·tern (sit′ərn)

noun

a stringed instrument of the guitar family, pear-shaped with a flat back, popular from the 15th to the 18th cent.

Etymology: < cither, prob. infl. by ME giterne: see gittern

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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