Definition of "flute-player" [flute-player]

• A player or performer upon the flute; a flutist. (noun)
• A South American wren of the genus Cyphorinus, as C. cantans: so called from its note. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Like the music of the flute-player dancing on the table"
• ""I bought a company of comedians," he went on, "but I preferred for them to put on Atellane farces, and I ordered my flute-player to play Latin airs only.""
• "Finally, the slave stepped out into the middle of the floor and waved his pipes in imitation of a flute-player; then, with a whip and a smock, he enacted the part of a mule-driver."