Sightsman

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sight-reader. dated

    "[…] indeed the lessons are evidently the production of a man who either never knew, or has forgotten, the elementary steps and helps necessary to make the future sightsman."

Example

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"[…] indeed the lessons are evidently the production of a man who either never knew, or has forgotten, the elementary steps and helps necessary to make the future sightsman."

Etymology

From sight + -s- + man.

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