Definition of "violist" []

• A person who plays the viol or the viola (noun)

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• "(As if that weren 't unfair enough, Mr. Britten was a pretty decent violist, too.)"
• "He has two children with his ex-wife, a professional violist."
• "The other two pieces on the program were John Cage's early "In a Landscape" (originally for piano), a contemplative and romantically atmospheric rumination, and a delightful new work by Brooklyn Rider violinist Colin Jacobsen called "Sheriff's Lied, Sheriff's Freude" ( "Sheriff" is violist Nicholas Cords's nickname)."