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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small six-stringed violoncello, invented by Staufer of Vienna in 1823, having a body shaped somewhat like that of a guitar: hence also called guitar-violoncello.

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  • noun A six-stringed musical instrument of the nineteenth century, fretted and tuned like a guitar but bowed like a cello.

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