improvisator
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of improvisator
Example Sentences
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Bonaparte understood the art of holding his audience in suspense, and keeping them in breathless attention, quite as well as an improvisator of the Place of St. Mark or of Toledo Street.
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Being a fantastic, nervous improvisator he is more exposed to radical mistakes.
From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Mauclair, Camille
As he was to play the part of improvisator that night, he thought it politic to make favor with all those who would be present.
From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
The name of Eug�ne Scribe, an incessant improvisator during forty years, from 1811 onwards, in comedy, vaudeville, and lyric drama, seems to recall that of the seventeenth-century Hardy.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
Syrus was not a literary man, but an improvisator and moralist.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
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