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Definition of Citherns
1. cithern [n] - See also: cithern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Citherns
Literary usage of Citherns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Falconer by John Aikin (1843)
"Soon, where the bände in lucid rows assemble, Flutes breathe, and citherns tremble
... citherns ..."
2. Official Catalogue by United States Centennial Commission (1876)
"citherns. 337 214 Walcker, EF, & Co., Ludwigs- burg.—Church organ. 327 21 6 Weite,
M., & Sons, Freiburg.-Orchestrion. 337 216 Trayser, Ph. I., A Co., ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Herbert Dickinson, Joseph Quincy Adams, Joaquin Miller, Robert B. Honeyman (1883)
"Procession of Print* anil people, with citherns, Aar/jï, ... And hark! they sing
with citherns and with And all the people fall upon their faces, ..."
4. Pre-Raphaelite and Other Poets: Lectures by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"... To Him round whom all souls Kneel, the clear-ranged unnumbered heads Bowed
with their aureoles: And angels meeting us shall sing To their citherns and ..."
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