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n. - A musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box.

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Usage examples (14)
  • She sat there with the zithern, letting her fingers glide gently over the strings.
  • But she does not call herself Signora Ballatino, and she does not play upon the zithern.
  • There were three sorts of stringed instruments, the lyre, the cithara (or zithern), and the harp.
  • I am having a statue erected to Mesomedes, the great zithern-player -- you perhaps know his songs.
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