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means The craft of building and repairing stringed instruments, like violins, guitars, and lutes, by hand.

from From French luthier, meaning a maker of lutes, which traces back to 'luth' — the lute itself, a word that entered French from the Arabic 'al-ʿūd' ('the wood' or 'the wooden instrument') via medieval trade and musical exchange across the Mediterranean. The craft is older than the word; lutherie simply names, in French precision, the centuries-old hand-work of coaxing voice out of timber.