dulcimer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From Old French doulcemelle, probably from Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “melody, song”).

Citole: a kind of dulcimer. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
“Think of a fat angel, Dulcimer!” said Diamond. — At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald
A girl playing one of those instruments what do you call them: dulcimers. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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