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Date: 1100-1200
Language: Old French
Origin: lire, from Latin lyra, from Greek

lyre

 noun
     
Related topics: Music
lyre [countable]
APM a musical instrument with strings across a U-shaped frame, played with the fingers, especially in ancient Greece
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