accompanist
noun
a person who plays an accompaniment.
accompanyist
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a variation of
accompanist.
Example Sentences
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The music, and the audience, and the accompanyist all together were delightful to him.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
With him as her accompanyist, she sang as she could not sing without his aid.
From Run to Earth A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Then what a chance for him, in the good old Grimaldi style, to sing "Hot Collings," rewritten by his faithful accompanyist Jesse.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 by Various
Lauretta was my ideal; all her naughty tempers, her artistic outbreaks of fury, impatience with her accompanyist, and so forth, I bore like a lamb.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Yet poor Clarence was not an accompanyist to be coveted.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
