gittern — 영어 사전

명사

1. A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.

   동의어

   quintern

   예문

   Now they can no more hear thy ghittern’s tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.

동사

1. To play on the gittern.

   관련 단어

   cithercitternzittern

   예문

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   c. 1639-1640. John Milton, The Cambridge Manuscript; Excerpts from pages 35-41, as Reprinted in David Masson, editor & author, The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time; Volume II, London and New York.: MacMillan and Co, 1871, page 109. … [E]ach evening every one with mistress, or Ganymede, glitterning along the streets, or solacing on the banks of Jordan, or down the stream.

명사

1. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

   동의어

   citterncitherncithercitole

   상위어

   guitar