flautist

[ flaw-tist, flou- ]

/ ˈflɔ tɪst, ˈflaʊ- /

flutist.

Origin of flautist

1855–60; < Italian flautista, equivalent to flaut(o) flute + -ista -ist

flautist flutist

flaubert, gustave, flaunch, flaunt, flaunty, flauta, flautist, flav-, flav., flavescent, flavia, flavin

Jim rocked through the crowd, in his tall hat, looking for the flautist.

Aaron's Rod |D. H. Lawrence
He might have been a flautist, and he played with a catching lilt, a luxurious abandon that was an incarnation of Nature.

Ghosts I Have Seen |Violet Tweedale
The second movement, "Summer Idyl," is delicious, particularly in the chances it gives the flautist.

Contemporary American Composers |Rupert Hughes
It pleased the young men musically-inclined and bohemian by profession to patronise the flautist, whom they declared marvellous.

Aaron's Rod |D. H. Lawrence

And so he is my nocturnal owl, my flautist of the bower, my Orpheus of the mountains.

Doom Castle |Neil Munro

flautist

/ (ˈflɔːtɪst) /

a player of the flute

C19: from Italian flautista, from flauto flute