gusla

plural guslas

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gusle.

   These were long ballads, often sung to the melancholy accompaniment of the one-stringed gusla, in which singers and listeners relived the great archetypal moments of Serbian history.

   2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 22

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   Soldiers were sitting at tables among these flowers, some playing cards, some singing songs to the sound of the gusla, but very softly because it was now evening, and it had been a holiday, and everyone was tired.

   1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, pages 662–3