Meanings
plural xylorimbists
- rareSomeone who plays a xylorimba.
As a xylorimbist you put new pep into any party — "make" the school orchestra — maybe even pay your way through college.
1929 October, Boys' Life, page 541 more example
She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players.
1999, Howard Jacobson, Peeping Tom, page 207
Origin
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