bandsman
Americannoun
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bandsmen
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noun
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Is bandsman gender-neutral? See -man.
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Like his boy, Ross was himself the only son of an itinerant musician, an orphaned military and later ocean-liner bandsman.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2015
The bandsman was working locally as an army recruiter.
From Reuters ● May 24, 2013
In college, he joined the Army Reserve as a bandsman, playing the alto saxophone, and was later called into active duty and sent to Fort Bragg, N.C., where he made the pistol team.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2013
Drew Nelson apologised unreservedly for the bandsman's behaviour The Grand Secretary of the Orange Order has apologised unreservedly for the behaviour of a bandsman caught urinating at a Catholic Church.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2012
Why, yes; of course, I know you now—the bandsman Smithson.
From The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by Smith, A. Monro
By 1862, the Union had nearly 15,000 bandsmen, and the secretary of war issued an order limiting band size and pushing thousands of buglers, trombonists and other music makers out of the Army.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
With the approval of John O’Dowd, Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein education minister, the Derry bandsmen tour schools in both Protestant and Catholic areas and explain their history.
From Economist ● Aug. 6, 2015
The terrible thing for the bandsmen was they were down in the radio transmitting room.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2013
Last week I watched an astonishing number of bandsmen in bearskin hats and bright red tunics rehearsing for the jubilee celebrations, which culminate next month.
From Newsweek ● May 21, 2012
Some of the bandsmen would come up to the men’s room at about eight o’clock and get shoeshines before they went to work.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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