Definition of "vihuela" []

• A guitar-like string instrument of 15th- and 16th-century Spain, usually with twelve paired strings. (noun)
• A guitar-like string instrument of 19th-century Mexico with five strings, typically played in mariachi bands. (noun)

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• "One is strumming a fat, round-backed guitar known as a vihuela, another, the deep-sounding guitarron, while two young singers gamely try to be heard: "De colores, de colores, se visten los campos en la primavera.""
• "Her brother, Nicholas, is in the performing group and plays the vihuela, which is smaller than the guitar but similar to it, she says."
• "Humberto Flores strummed a vihuela, or five-string guitar."