Meaning & use
Cuatro
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A small, four- or five-stringed guitar-like instrument used in traditional Latin American music, especially in Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
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The trio's sound was anchored by the bright, rapid strumming of a cuatro.
He learned to play the cuatro from his grandfather during summers in Puerto Rico.
A note on using this word
The name simply means 'four' in Spanish, referring to its traditional four courses of strings, though five-string versions also exist.
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