Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A player or performer upon the flute; a flutist.
- noun A South American wren of the genus Cyphorinus, as C. cantans: so called from its note.
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Examples
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Like the music of the flute-player dancing on the table
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Like the music of the flute-player dancing on the table
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Finally, the slave stepped out into the middle of the floor and waved his pipes in imitation of a flute-player; then, with a whip and a smock, he enacted the part of a mule-driver.
Satyricon 2007
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If you wished to be thought a good farmer, a good horseman, a good physician, a good flute-player, or anything else whatever, without really being so, just imagine what
Cyropaedia 2007
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Thibron, as it befell, had just finished breakfast, and was returning to the mess with Thersander the flute-player.
Hellenica 2007
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"I bought a company of comedians," he went on, "but I preferred for them to put on Atellane farces, and I ordered my flute-player to play Latin airs only."
Satyricon 2007
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The latter was not only a good flute-player, but, as affecting Lacedaemonian manners, laid claim to personal prowess.
Hellenica 2007
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SOCRATES: And in a similar way you speak of a good boxer or a good flute-player or a good performer in any other art?
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The flute-player will know the good and bad flute, and the maker will put faith in him; but the imitator will neither know nor have faith — neither science nor true opinion can be ascribed to him.
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The first to appear on the platform was a flute-player of consumptive appearance, who most conscientiously dribbled away — what am I saying? — piped, I mean — a piece also of consumptive tendency; two persons shouted bravo!
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