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单词 sistre
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sistren.

Forms: pre-1700 cistier, pre-1700 cistre, pre-1700 seistar, pre-1700 seister, pre-1700 siester, pre-1700 sister, pre-1700 sistir, pre-1700 sistre.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French cistre.
Etymology: Apparently < Middle French cistre (although this is first attested slightly later than in English: 1559), alteration (after sistre sistrum n.) of citre (see cither n.). Compare slightly later cittern n.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Apparently: a stringed musical instrument resembling a cittern (cittern n.).In quot. 1538: a person who plays a sistre.
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1538 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 15 To his howboyis for thair newar gift..to his sisters [printed sisteis] vj cronis [etc.].
?1590–1 J. Burel Discription Queens Entry Edinb. in Poems sig. L3 Trumpets and Tymbrels, maid gret beir, With instruments melodious: The Seistar and the Sumphion [etc.].
1599 A. Hume Epist. to G. Montcrieff in Hymnes sig. H1 A loftie troup of Ladies in array, Sum on a luth, sum on a sistre play.
1603 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 398 To instruct..the ȝowthe..to play vpoun all musicall instrumentis speciallie virginallis, monicordis, luit, seister.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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