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noun a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
noun a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers
originFrom Old French doulcemelle, probably from Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “melody, song”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0