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improvisator

American  
[im-prov-uh-zay-ter, im-pruh-vuh-] / ɪmˈprɒv əˌzeɪ tər, ˈɪm prə və- /

noun

  1. a person who improvises; improviser.


Etymology

Origin of improvisator

1785–95; improvise + -ator; compare Italian improvvisatore


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Then he began his story with all the earnestness and tragic power of an improvisator of ancient Rome.

From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

In his eye the lambent fire, Of his thought the glint, showed kinship With the free improvisator In the land of warmth and vineyards.

From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer

Beronicius, the Greek and Latin improvisator, who knew by heart Horace, Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, both the Plinys, Homer, and Aristophănês.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

The improvisator was given a theme of which he knew nothing, and on which he discoursed, often brilliantly.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Kuno Francke

In French, they call such a person by a very long name—the improvisator.

From Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis

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