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Shamisen

//ˈʃæmɪsɛn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.
  2. 2
    a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum wordnet

Etymology

From Japanese 三味線 (shamisen).

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