sightsmann.
/ˈsʌɪtsmən/ 1. One who points out sights or objects of interest; a local guide, a cicerone.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads > strangers or tourists
sightsmanc1660
xenagogue1674
ciceronea1719
valet-de-place1750
lionizer1829
provodnik1888
tourist guide1924
travel guide1934
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 214 Our Sights-man, for so they name certaine Persons in Rome, who get their living onely by leading strangers about to see the Citty.
2. One who reads or performs music at sight.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > sight-reader
sightsman1786
reader1826
sight-reader1866
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Sightsman, the appellation given to him who reads, or sings, music readily at first sight: hence we say, ‘such a one is a good Sightsman’.
1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. 263 This musician, who was..of considerable eminence..both as a sight's-man and voluntary player.
3. ? One who takes sight with a pistol.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > pistol
pistolier?1563
pistoleter1570
pistoletier1587
pistoler1590
pistoleera1679
pistol man1784
sightsman1790
pistol shot1832
pistol-toter1887
pistol-packer1899
pistolero1932
1790 By-stander 169 How serious a thing it is to call all the duellists that ever lived, from the Roman Gladiators to the sightsmen of the present day, rascals.
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