- a variation of lutenist.
lutanist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lutanist
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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A contemporary of Bach's wrote that if a lutanist lived to be 80, he would spend 60 years merely tuning his instrument.
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He rarely went home to his small and dull town of Venosa, instead lived in nearby Naples, gathered the finest Renaissance musicians and poets around him, and himself became famed as a lutanist and singer.
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Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer.
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Few had heard of John Dowland, the great lutanist of his time in England.
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I, likewise, can call the lutanist and the singer, but the sounds, that pleased me yesterday, weary me to-day, and will grow yet more wearisome to-morrow.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
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