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guitar

gui.tar \g*-'ta:r, gi-\ n [F guitare, fr. Sp guittara, fr. Ar qi-ta-r, fr. 
   Gk ]kithara cithara : a flat-bodied stringed instrument with a long fretted 
   neck and usu. six  strings plucked with a plectrum or with the fingers