Citterns is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 289 anagrams from letters in citterns (ceinrstt).
1550-60; blend of Latin cithara (Greek kithára lyre, kithara) andgittern
The last development of the cittern before its disappearance was the addition of keys.
Constantijn Huygens declares that he learnt to play the barbiton in a few weeks, but took two years to learn the cittern.
The instrument here introduced is the cittern, played with or without a plectrum or quill.
A cittern or lute was part of the appointments of a barbers shop of the period.
From every barber shop came the twang of cittern or guitar, while song burst from the lips of every tankard bearer.
The instrument, on which he doubtless accompanied his mournful love-songs, is a form of cittern.
The cittern of the middle ages was also to be found in oval shape.
Robinson gives instructions for learning to play the cittern and for reading the tablature.
Dekker mentions a "barber's cittern for every serving-man to play upon."
The cittern has retained the following characteristics of the archetype.