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flugelhornist

flugelhornist noun: one who plays the flugelhorn.

Noun

flugelhornist (plural flugelhornists)

  1. One who plays the flugelhorn.
    • Radulph could not help but notice how the breasts of a lady flugelhornist trembled whenever she blew into her instrument.1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 109
    • Shank returned in 1974 in the company of the LA Four, a Latin-influenced, cool-bop ensemble that featured Almeida and the great double bassist Ray Brown - sometimes extending this successful group's style into broader recording projects, including the excellent trumpeter and flugelhornist Bobby...2009 April 6, John Fordham, “Bud Shank”, in The Guardian

Forms of flugelhornist

pluralflugelhornists

Origin of flugelhornist

From flugelhorn + -ist.

Questions about flugelhornist

What does flugelhornist mean?
Flugelhornist means one who plays the flugelhorn.
What part of speech is flugelhornist?
Flugelhornist is a noun.
What is the plural of flugelhornist?
The plural of flugelhornist is flugelhornists.

Words near flugelhornist in the dictionary

  1. fluffy-backed tit-babblers
  2. flufy
  3. flufylline
  4. flugel
  5. flugelhorn
  6. flugelhornist
  7. flugelhornists
  8. flugelhorns
  9. flugelman
  10. flugelmen
  11. flugels

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