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
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
That was tricky, but nothing any skilled lutist couldn’t accomplish.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
As a youth he became an excellent lutist, then thought of devoting himself to painting, but when he was seventeen studied medicine, and at the University of Pisa fell in love with mathematics.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
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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