Crossword clues for flutist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flutist \Flut"ist\, n. [Cf. F. fl[^u]tiste.]
A performer on the flute; a flautist.
--Busby.
2. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.
3. To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.
No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit,
That once so fluttered, and that once so writ.
--Pope.
4. To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.
Long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success.
--Howell.
His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering.
--I.
Watts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. One who plays the flute.
WordNet
n. someone who plays the flute [syn: flautist, flute player]
Usage examples of "flutist".
Lake of the Golden House, assemble trumpeters, zither players, flutists, cymbalists, foot-cymbalists, and singers.
So at one moment I would be twiddling with my fingers as on the frets of a viella, and the next I would be using my lips in the manner of playing a dulzaina, and the next I would be flutter-tonguing in the way a flutist blows his flute.
A classical flutist turned semiprofessional folk artist, Kathy performs on flute and Irish harp with her guitarist-music teacher husband, Mark, and they have released two successful folk albums.
An orchestra of flutists and lyrists, all dressed as satyrs, struck up a sensuous tune.
Sharina stood beside the flutist who blew time for the sailors launching the nearby trireme, even she could scarcely hear the notes over the bedlam of the fleet loading.
This Münzer, or Klepp as I call him today, this corpulent, indolent, yet not inactive, superstitious, readily perspiring, unwashed, but not derelict flutist and jazz clarinettist, had, though something or other was always preventing him from dying, and still has, the smell of a corpse that never stops smoking cigarettes, sucking peppermints, and eating garlic.
Behind me, as I thrust apart the beads, I heard the pounding of the drum, the kaska, the silence, then the sound, as the flutist, his hands on her body, to the sound of the drum, instructed the girl in the line-length and intensity of one of the varieties of pre-abandonment pelvic thrusts.
Shaped vaguely like miniature arrowheads, the ceramic shards struck a trombone player under his raised arm and a flutist in the neck and passed through both of them, their speed barely diminished.