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n. - A musician who plays the stringed instrument having a body shaped like a pear sliced lengthwise and a neck with a fretted fingerboard that is usually bent just below the tuning pegs.

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  • I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer, but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to day, and will grow yet more wearisome to morrow.
  • Lend true repentant tears … BLAIR: This is singer Ellen Hargis with lutanist Paul O'Dette.
  • When they asked him who he was, he answered, a lutanist, nor did the trial belie his profession.
  • The power of her smiling un-mothermind was irresistible, strumming his memories like an expert lutanist.
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