flautist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of flautist
1855–60; < Italian flautista, equivalent to flaut ( o ) flute + -ista -ist
Example Sentences
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Rapper turned flautist André 3000 is also poised to make history.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
His time as a flautist left a lasting impression, he said.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
Alongside Stan Getz, flautist Mann helped bring Brazilian bossa nova to a curious American mainstream with this cover of the standard by Antônio Carlos Jobim.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023
By the ‘90s, the instrument had become somewhat passé in rock, but the experimental New York band Mercury Rev made artful use of flautist Suzanne Thorpe, as on this highlight from 1993’s “Boces.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023
I stumbled on my part, too lost in reverie, and the flautist fixed me with a look most vexed.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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