bandsman
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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
But his fellow composer Rutland Boughton suggested he apply to become a Royal Marine bandsman.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2013
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
He couldn't tell a battery horse from a bandsman.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
In 1927, Congress was considering an increase in pay and rank for military bandsmen.
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
In Gloucester during parliamentary elections in 1857 and 1859 the Tory party agent gave out food and drink to local supporters and lavished funds on Tory voters who acted as messengers, flag-bearers and bandsmen.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2015
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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