Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
oboist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A player on the hautboy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who plays the
hautboy .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
hautboy + -ist
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Examples
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"Above us is a violinist, below us another, next door a singing teacher who gives lessons, and in the last room opposite ours, a hautboyist.
Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905
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