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lyre

lyre [ līr ] (plural lyres)


noun 
Definition:
 
string instrument: a plucked string instrument associated with ancient Greece and consisting of a U-shaped frame with a crossbar from which the strings stretch down to the soundbox

[12th century. Via French< Latin lyra< Greek lura]
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