Plural of cithern; multiple Renaissance or medieval stringed instruments with flat bodies and multiple strings.
The regular English plural of cithern, formed by adding the suffix '-s'.
Museum collections across Europe hold citherns in various states of preservation, and by studying the surviving instruments and how strings were attached, musicologists have figured out that Renaissance citherns could be tuned in multiple ways—making them far more versatile than we once thought.
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