Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small dulcimer used in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.
Wiktionary
- n. An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.), obsolete A musical instrument; a kind of dulcimer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
Etymologies
- Probably a French diminutive form of Latin cithara, and not from Latin cista, a box. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It includes treasures such as the Limoges casket from France, an ivory triptych from Byzantium, and an early English citole, or guitar.”
“Glad I am to see that you have your citole slung to your back.”
Sir Nigel
“So Chandos went his way that evening, walking his horse through the peaceful lanes and twanging his citole as he went, for he loved music and was famous for his merry songs.”
Sir Nigel
“There is the playing of the citole and the rebeck.”
“Any one of us could get in more local colour for the money, and give the crusader a cithern or citole instead of a guitar.”
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“France, and the only surviving citole, a precursor to the guitar, owned by Elizabeth I. James Robinson, curator of the medieval collections, said of the chess pieces: "They act as the gateway for all the different themes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘citole’.
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Zing Went the Strings
lute, guitar, mandolin, violin, banjo, balalaika, sitar, pipa, autoharp, zither, kantele, guqin and 329 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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string alongs (and shorts too)
string instruments and instrumentation
zither, guitar, bouzouki, rebec, violin, cithara, fiddle, fidicinal, twang, fret, gadulka, maqui and 54 more...
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