gittern

gittern englannista suomeksi

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gittern englanniksi

1. A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.

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2. (RQ:Keats Lamia)

3. To play on the gittern.

4. c. 1639-1640. (w), ''The Cambridge Manuscript''; Excerpts from pages 35-41, as Reprinted in David Masson, editor & author, ''The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time; Volume II'', London and New York.: MacMillan and Co, 1871, page 109.

... Each evening every one with mistress, or Ganymede, glitterning along the streets, or solacing on the banks of Jordan, or down the stream.