Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old French flaute + -ist. (Wiktionary)
- Italian flautista, from flauto, flute, from Old Provençal flaüt; see flute. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“On that tour, Kerr, a flautist, is also believed to have acquired three pieces found in the same folder as the concerto.”
“Georgie, just back from sexually harassing the German PM and a flautist, is the only man on earth who could then say – look I’m not a racist I have a Black friend.”
“It wasn't all that odd to see a costumed musician walking the Faire, but a flautist was a rarity, and the morose melodies he chose were definitely out of keeping with the "merrye spirit of Olde England" that everyone else was projecting.”
“Saying this, he drew out the little mahogany case which held his flute, and coolly took the pieces and fitted them together, before crossing his legs upon the rough seat and beginning to blow, keeping up a series of the most doleful old Scotch and Irish laments, while the oxen plodded on and the police rode by the wagon side, listening and looking in vain for any sign tending to point out the fact that the flautist was a dishonest dealer in the coveted crystals which were so hard to get, but all the same keeping a keen look-out for danger in the shape of advancing Boers.”
“We have musicians here who play for people who've just come out of surgery - a flautist goes up and plays for them and these patients, who are in tremendous pain, at the end of the playing, they are almost pain-free.”
“For his own phone, Mr. Oosting favors a tune performed by flautist Andrea Griminelli with the London Symphony Orchestra, because "it is elegant and when it rings, it doesn't seem to disturb others.”
The Wall Street Journal: Setting the Right Tone With Your Cellphone
“Soaring Eagle: Frederick the Great was also a flautist and composer.”
“Boehm was born in Munich, Bavaria (now Germany) and was a flautist in the Royal Bavarian Orchestra.”
“Mr. Speed, who will present Skirl's most recent artists—flautist Leah Paul and tenor saxophonist Travis Laplant—at Wednesday's showcase, contends there is no other option.”
“I started taking lessons on bass guitar at 59-years-old, and two years later I am able to hold my own with an experienced flautist and pianist, with whom I jam once a week.”
The Wall Street Journal: Coming Rather Late To the Musical Muse
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flautist’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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harmony of the spheres
tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone, progression, sonata, concerto, allegro and 247 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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zetadiction
words that embody life
hydrae, kleptocracy, curmudgeon, wordie, risotto, qi, pulchritudinous, micropolitan, schadenfreude, neolithic, experimentalist, zeta and 477 more...
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jerin's Words
ululating, puddle, whorl, huzzah, maharaja, mostaccioli, elizabethan, cat, felicitous, dystopian, larynx, pop and 35 more...
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Desk
This is where I'm putting all those words that are still looking for a home among my other lists. Like its real-life counterpart, the desk will always be a little messy.
tchotchke, kvetch, futon, east coast, balboa, character, pahoehoe, erudite, otolaryngology, busted, betwixt, bombast and 32 more...
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and you and I
Character sketches: people in words.
bitter, dignity, seventeen, mouth, eccentric, maiden, scientist, daughter, cynic, traveller, rogue, bones and 8 more...
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staffordcastle's Words
mellifluous, verbivore, rampage, virago, lollygag, neep, alluvial, riparian, zany, bauta, amanuensis, adamantine and 85 more...
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who we were
dilettante, wanderer, violinist, dreamer, flautist, traveller
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spookymilk's Words
eleemosynary, rataplan, aspirant, scatalogical, harlequin, choleric, fisticuffs, aenima, antagonistic, hurlyburly, ramshackle, clandestine and 28 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for flautist.

reesetee *hands broken trebuchet back to chained*
Here. It's always toughest the first time you wield one. May 14, 2010
chained_bear No problem. *tries to wield trebuchet*
*fails* May 4, 2010
ruzuzu C_B, you could be your own awe-inspiring, trebuchet-wielding mob. Just... please... whatever you do... don't set the pianos on fire. May 4, 2010
chained_bear ... I want to be in a trebuchet-wielding mob. May 4, 2010
milosrdenstvi With the a as in smackdown, not as in awe-inspiring. The same way he pronounced piano, his two of which he always doughtily defended from torch-and-trebuchet-wielding mobs. May 4, 2010
reesetee Milos, how did your piano teacher pronounce "pianist"? May 4, 2010
chained_bear I like your piano teacher. Apr 30, 2010
milosrdenstvi My piano teacher, who was also a flute teacher, would say, "I am not a flautist. I do not play the flaut." Apr 30, 2010
pterodactyl So you think maybe you'll be a doggerelist,
Just to pass the time till you make your next list,
The Wordies gather 'round and they start to talk
"It's nice, pterodactyl, but you're no sionnach." Apr 21, 2008
gangerh HAHAHAHA! Top drawer, sionnach. HAHAHA! Apr 21, 2008
sionnach
So you think maybe you'll be a strumpet,
Just to pay for your lessons, you're learning the trumpet,
It's true that the gents like their bit o' crumpet,
But that don't make your idea any less dumb, pet.
"Tart Tartare", by Foxydoggerel. Apr 21, 2008
pterodactyl So you think maybe you'll be a prostitute,
Just to pay for your lessons, you're learning the flute,
The ladies won't pay you very much for this,
Looks like you'll never be a concert flautist.
-- "Inner City Pressure", by Flight of the Conchords Apr 21, 2008
frindley So what exactly is it that you do to floors? Apr 21, 2008
yarb One who has it and flauts it. Mar 31, 2008
jennarenn Also known as a flutist or floutist. Apr 27, 2007