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Definition of Cittern
1. Noun. A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings.
Definition of Cittern
1. n. An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Definition of Cittern
1. Noun. (musical instrument) A stringed instrument similar to a mandolin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cittern
1. a pear-shaped guitar [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cittern
Literary usage of Cittern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The cittern was heard in every barber's shop ; and even up to the publication of
the ' Tatler ' it was the same : " Go into a barber's anywhere, ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"A race of heroes came in after days, Or the lewd tinkling of a cittern's strings,
Who high above the thrones of princes rais'd Their curule chair, ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1827)
"And twice redeem'd his cittern: he miy remember me.] A Lute or cittern formerly
used to be part of the furniture of a "barber's shop, and, ..."
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