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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A male teacher of music.

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  • “On the gloom of this life one sole figure of a man, that of a music-master, stood vigorously forth.”

    A Daughter of Eve

  • “Granville had found a music-master for her daughters, they all inquired for his name and address.”

    A Daughter of Eve

  • “Did my dear grandmamma, twenty or thirty years ago. think she should live to be told, that to the dancing-master, the singing or music-master, the high mode would require the gaming-master to be added for the completing of the female education?”

    Sir Charles Grandison

  • “The former had his reasons for overlooking the attentions of the little music-master; and as for the latter, had she not been on the stage, and had not many hundreds of persons, in jest or earnest, made love to her?”

    Mens Wives

  • “Podmore, the old music-master, was there too, and was delighted and astonished at the progress in singing which Morgiana had made; and when the little party separated, he took Mr. Woolsey by the hand, and said,”

    Mens Wives

  • “Madame Cremiere and I are inclined to take her music-master for our children.”

    Ursula

  • “Well, sir, I — Mary of Scotland knew me but as a little hunchbacked music-master; and yet, and yet, I think SHE was not indifferent to her David Riz — and SHE came to misfortune.”

    Roundabout Papers

  • “When she was four years old she had a tender feeling towards the Buttons who brought the coals up to the nursery, or the little sweep at the crossing, or the music-master, or never mind whom.”

    The Virginians

  • “And when the dancing-master came, Betsinda learned along with Angelica; and when the music-master came, she watched him, and practiced the”

    The Rose and the Ring

  • “She might annex herself to the easy-going high by wedding an old nobleman, or she might join for good and all the easy-going low, by plunging back to the level of her family, giving up all her ambitions for them, settling as the wife of a provincial music-master named”

    The Hand of Ethelberta

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