lutanist
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lutanist
First recorded in 1590–1600
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Few had heard of John Dowland, the great lutanist of his time in England.
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At 34, Bream is in demand throughout Europe and America as the undisputed successor to the grand master of the classical guitar, Andres Segovia, and as a lutanist already beyond comparison.
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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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Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer.
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At night the streets and the gardens are lit with gay lanthorns fashioned from three-coloured shell of the tortoise, and here resound the soft notes of the singer and the lutanist.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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