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improvisator

American  
[im-prov-uh-zey-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

Example Sentences

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When he dismissed them, the last flash of him was of a smiling, rollicking improvisator, bowing himself over to the applause till his black hair was level with our eyes.

From Golden Lads by Gleason, Arthur

Of other sermons,—and good sermons,—printed and published, many have had an influence almost as restricted and as evanescent as the utterances of the pulpit improvisator.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

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 Palmer, Arthur Hubbell

My rage made me, for the moment, an improvisator.

From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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 Francke, Kuno

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