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noun- One who composes and performs or delivers without previous preparation or on the spur of the moment; One who makes, provides, or arranges from whatever materials are readily available

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  • No feast at any court in those days was complete without this diversion of recitation, when the nation's heroes, or some passage from its greater classics, furnished the theme;...
  • Beronicius, the Greek and Latin improvisator, who knew by heart
  • Syrus was not a literary man, but an improvisator and moralist.
  • Johnnie had the tongue of the improvisator, and he loved a listener.
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