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- noun A hollow-body
guitar of the older variety, incontradistinction to anelectric guitar .
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- noun sound is not amplified by electrical means
Etymologies
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Retronym for guitar, coined after the invention of the electric guitar to refer to the older type of guitar and avoid confusion with the electric guitar.
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