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- noun Plural form of
zithern .
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Examples
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Songs of the East: with voices join in sweet concert drone-pipes, flutes, harps and zitherns swelling out past the Lone Cloud; red sinks the sun, so mirroring Mount Sumeru; green in the waves Float Isle Moor gale-swept, where blossoms fall, yes, whirling snow the white cloud sleeves are lovely indeed!
Hagoromo 1978
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An hour later the three of them were closeted among the zitherns.
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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Among the zitherns Felix sat and wondered if he had been schvindled.
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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In the sunny window of his musical store, surrounded by zitherns, auto-harps, dulcimers, psalteries, sackbuts, and other instrument's of melody, the advent of Nelson produced the effect of a sudden and unexpected discord.
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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