Definition of "gittern" [git•tern]

• A guitar of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (noun)

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• "The musical group consisted of the tervardi, two hertasi playing drums, and four Tayledras who played harp, gittern, flute, and some sort of horn, respectively."
• "He put his gittern into the stand by touch and knelt to blow the fire to flame."
• "The bard played a soft melody on his gittern as Lord Kemoc seemed to doze, the golden firelight flickering over both of them."