Lutenist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who plays the lute, a lutist.
"A group of composers, variously known as the madrigalists, the lutenists, or the virginalists (depending on the medium for which they were writing), produced vast quantities of attractive music, mostly for amateur consumption."
- 2 a musician who plays the lute wordnet
Example
More examples"A group of composers, variously known as the madrigalists, the lutenists, or the virginalists (depending on the medium for which they were writing), produced vast quantities of attractive music, mostly for amateur consumption."
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin lutanista, from lutana (“lute”), from Middle French lut. By surface analysis, lute + -n- + -ist.
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