flugelhornist

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noun

One who plays the flugelhorn.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounflugelhornist (plural flugelhornists)

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
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    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 Shew.

    2009 April 6, John Fordham, “Bud Shank”, in The Guardian

Origin

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