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‖ barbiton, -os|ˈbɑːbɪtən, -əs|
[L. barbiton, -os, a. Gr. βάρβιτον, -ος.]
A many-stringed musical instrument; a kind of lyre or lute.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. (Arb.) 39 All maner of pypes, barbitons, sambukes..be condemned of Aristotle. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The barbitos is said to have differed from the lyre and cithara. 1842Lytton Zanoni i. i, His barbiton, as the learned Mersennus tells us to call all the varieties of the great viol family. |