(n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) As she said, that wasn’t to recreate prim antiquity, Roman or Tudor: the lutes, citterns , fiddles, and droning pipes of the standard Globe ensemble are tavern instruments anyway – music for a pub knees-up – and the North African imports are only a bit wilder.