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gui⋅tar⋅ist

[gi-tahr-ist]
–noun
a performer on the guitar.

Origin:
1760–70; guitar + -ist
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gui·tar   (gĭ-tär')   
n.  A musical instrument having a flat-backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking.

[French guitare, from Spanish guitarra, from Greek kitharā, cithara.]
gui·tar'ist n.
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