gittern — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

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.

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   quintern

   Ví dụ

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

Động từ

1. To play on the gittern.

   Từ liên quan

   cithercitternzittern

   Ví dụ

   Thêm ví dụ (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.

Danh từ

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

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   citterncitherncithercitole

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   guitar