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harpist|ˈhɑːpɪst|
[f. harp n.1 + -ist.]
A (professional) harper.
1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. v, That Oeagrian harpist, for whose lay, Tigers with hunger pinde and left their pray. 1856E. Capern Poems (ed. 2) 141 'Twas a little fairy harpist Playing on the subtle air. 1890Guardian 24 Sept. 1472/2 Mr. John Thomas, harpist to the Queen. 1898S. A. Brooke Eng. Lit. fr. Beginnings to Norman Conq. ii. 41 As far as we can go back with certainty we find the Teutonic..harpists and singers. 1948K. Malone in A. C. Baugh Lit. Hist. England i. 46 Whether Scilling was Widsith's harpist or a fellow scop..we cannot tell. |