Definition of "lutanist" [lut•a•nist]

• Variant of lutenist. (noun)

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• "I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer, but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to day, and will grow yet more wearisome to morrow."
• "On the evening before the course, Michel and I attended a concert of world-famous lutanist Hopkinson Smith."
• "One day, being in the house of one of his intimates, he saw painted on the wall the figure of a lutanist, a beautiful damsel, beholder never beheld a fairer or a more pleasant."