archlute

[ ahrch-loot ]

noun
  1. a lute with two pegboxes, one for the stopped strings and the other for the bass strings, which run outside the fingerboard.

Origin of archlute

1
1720–30; arch-1 + lute1, modeled on Italian archiliuto

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