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Definitions for Dulcimer
[1] Also called hammered dulcimer, hammer dulcimer. a trapezoidal zither with metal strings that are struck with light hammers.
[2] Also called mountain dulcimer . a modern folk instrument related to the guitar and plucked with the fingers.
[3] a tuned percussion instrument consisting of a set of strings of graduated length stretched over a sounding board and struck with a pair of hammers
[4] an instrument used in US folk music, consisting of an elliptical body, a fretted fingerboard, and usually three strings plucked with a goose quill
Words nearby Dulcimer
dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, dulce gulf, dulcet, dulciana, dulcify, dulcimer, dulcinea, dulcitol, dulcy, dulia, dull
Origin of Dulcimer
1560–70; alteration of Middle English dowcemere < Middle French doulcemer, dissimilated variant of doulcemele < Old Italian dolcimelo, dolzemele < Latin dulce melos sweet song. See dulcet, melic
Word origin for Dulcimer
C15: from Old French doulcemer, from Old Italian dolcimelo, from dolce sweet, from Latin dulcis + -melo, perhaps from Greek melos song