Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An accompanist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
accompanist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nature had cast this mild-eyed individual for the part of accompanyist in the comedy we call life; a _rôle_ he sometimes varied as now, with the office of _claqueur_, when an uncommonly clever proof of madame's talent for business drew from him this noiseless tribute of applause.
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I've told her she simply must come to Ruan, and bring the best accompanyist she can find.
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Since other gentlemen are not more obsequious in gallantry, I hereby tender myself for honour of accompanyist and _vade mecum_.
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Being in comfortable circumstances, highly educated, handsome, attractive, with a mezzo-soprano voice of rare beauty and great skill as a piano-forte accompanyist, she had not only suitors who took her rejection without bitterness, but hosts of friends.
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Luigi Carlo Zanobe Salvadore Maria Cherubini was born at Florence on September 14, 1700, the son of a harpsichord accompanyist at the Pergola Theatre.
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With him as her accompanyist, she sang as she could not sing without his aid.
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The music, and the audience, and the accompanyist all together were delightful to him.
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Yet poor Clarence was not an accompanyist to be coveted.
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As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song; which having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.
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As Fagin stepped softly in, the professional gentleman, running over the keys by way of prelude, occasioned a general cry of order for a song, which, having subsided, a young lady proceeded to entertain the company with a ballad in four verses, between each of which the accompanyist played the melody all through, as loud as he could.
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