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  • noun Plural form of gittern.

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Examples

  • And he froze, for there were two sets of packs, and two gitterns.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He laid the chosen lute carefully down on his bunk, and stripped the case from the first of the gitterns.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • And he froze, for there were two sets of packs, and two gitterns.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He laid the chosen lute carefully down on his bunk, and stripped the case from the first of the gitterns.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Buoyant were the violins; sportive the flutes; all alive the gitterns; blithesome the tripping arpeggios that crisply fell from the strings of the joyous harps.

    Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

  • There were harps, and fiddles, and gitterns, and psalteries, and lutes and rebecks, and many more that he could not name.

    Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908

  • Been trying gitterns with metal strings, 'stead of gut; you tell me how it came out. "

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • Been trying gitterns with metal strings, 'stead of gut; you tell me how it came out. "

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • 4.42.3: Laye downe your lutes and let your gitterns rest,

    "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557

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