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Webster 1913 Edition
Orpharion
Or-pha′ri-on
,Noun.
(Mus.)
An old instrument of the lute or cittern kind.
[Spelt also
orpheoreon
.] Definition 2024
orpharion
orpharion
English
Noun
orpharion (plural orpharions)
- (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.