flautist

[flaw-tist, flou-]

noun

flutist.

Nearby words

Origin of flautist

1855–60; < Italian flautista, equivalent to flaut(o) flute + -ista -ist

Can be confusedflautist flutist

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Examples from the Web for flautist

Jim rocked through the crowd, in his tall hat, looking for the flautist.
Aaron's Rod|D. H. Lawrence
He might have been a flautist, and he played with a catching lilt, a luxurious abandon that was an incarnation of Nature.
Ghosts I Have Seen|Violet Tweedale
The second movement, "Summer Idyl," is delicious, particularly in the chances it gives the flautist.
Contemporary American Composers|Rupert Hughes
It pleased the young men musically-inclined and bohemian by profession to patronise the flautist, whom they declared marvellous.
Aaron's Rod|D. H. Lawrence

And so he is my nocturnal owl, my flautist of the bower, my Orpheus of the mountains.
Doom Castle|Neil Munro

British Dictionary definitions for flautist

flautist

US and Canadian flutist (ˈfluːtɪst)

noun

a player of the flute

Word Origin for flautist

C19: from Italian flautista, from flauto flute

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Word Origin and History for flautist

flautist

1860, from Italian flautista, from flauto "flute" (from Late Latin flauta; see flute (n.)) + Greek-derived suffix -ista.