timists

The bystanders joined in the song; an interminable recitative, as usual, in the minor key, and — Orientals are admirable timists — it sounded like one voice.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Although the most perfect timists, their music, with its wild, melancholy cadence, half savage, half civilized, cannot be imitated or described.

A girl's life in Virginia before the war, Letitia M Burwell 1895

After cooking, when the night has set it, the everlasting dance begins, attended with clapping of hands and jingling small bells strapped to the legs -- the whole being accompanied by a constant repetition of senseless words, which stand in place of the song to the negroes; for song they have none, being mentally incapacitated for musical composition, though as timists they are not to be surpassed.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845