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git⋅tern

  [git-ern]
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git·tern   (gĭt'ərn)   
n.  A guitar of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

[Middle English giterne, from Old French guiterne, from Latin cithara; see cithara.]
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gittern

either of two medieval stringed musical instruments, the guitarra latina and the guitarra morisca. The latter was also known as the guitarra saracenica.

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