ghittern

Within was the well-worn leather chair for customers, the guitar, then called a ghittern or cittern, with which a customer might amuse himself till his predecessor was dismissed from under Benjamin's hands, and which, therefore, often flayed the ears of the patient metaphorically, while his chin sustained from the razor literal scarification.

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

Within was the well-worn leather chair for customers, the guitar, then called a ghittern or cittern, with which a customer might amuse himself till his predecessor was dismissed from under Benjamin’s hands, and which, therefore, often flayed the ears of the patient metaphorically, while his chin sustained from the razor literal scarification.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn arrives.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn arrives.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn arrives.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 06: June/July 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668

[In the "Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn arrives.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jun/Jul 1660 Pepys, Samuel 1660

Would you have a tune on that ghittern, to put your temper in concord for the day? —

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

De Vaux departed, and in about an hour afterwards, Richard, wrapping his mantle around him, and taking his ghittern in his hand, walked in the direction of the Queen's pavilion.

The Talisman 1894

Would you have a tune on that ghittern, to put your temper in concord for the day?

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

De Vaux departed, and in about an hour afterwards, Richard, wrapping his mantle around him, and taking his ghittern in his hand, walked in the direction of the Queen’s pavilion.

The Talisman 2008