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Webster 1913 Edition


Orpharion

Or-pha′ri-on

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Noun.
(Mus.)
An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.
[Spelt also
orpheoreon
.]

Definition 2024


orpharion

orpharion

English

Noun

orpharion (plural orpharions)

  1. (music) A musical instrument of the Renaissance, part of the cittern family, whose metal strings are tuned like a lute's and plucked with the fingers.