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dulcimer

'dʌlsimә4 senses · 68 ms
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noun/ˈdʌl.sɪ.mɚ//ˈdʌl.sɪ.mə/
  1. 1

    A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).

    • A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.
    • Accompanying himself with his dulcimer, a plectrum instrument of his own handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old.

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