CITOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does citole mean? 

• CITOLE (noun)
  The noun CITOLE has 1 sense:

1. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

  Familiarity information: CITOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cither; cithern; citole; cittern; gittern

Hypernyms ("citole" is a kind of...):

guitar (a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking)

 Context examples 

There is the playing of the citole and the rebeck.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On citole, flute and rebeck.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)