noun
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another word for lutenist
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a person who makes lutes
Etymology
Origin of lutist
Example Sentences
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I was always the youngest person in the room and I would often end up being the donkey or the partially obscured lutist or a plant.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022
That was tricky, but nothing any skilled lutist couldn’t accomplish.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
The flood of well-wishers slowed somewhat: a fellow lutist, the talented piper I’d seen on stage, a local merchant.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
My lutist shall sing you something,—in English, of course!—for all the world is being Anglicized by degrees, and there will soon be no separate nations left.
From Ziska by Corelli, Marie
Mattheson, who wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the lute was still cultivated, said that a lutist of eighty years must have spent nearly sixty in tuning his instrument.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
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