bandsman
Americannoun
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
Attracted by the uproar, one of my comrades ran up; he was called Gianfrancesco, and was a bandsman, but was far more naturally given to medicine than to music.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington
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