a person skilled in pyrotechnics, esp. in the manufacture or use of fireworks
Word origin
[1785–95; pyrotechn(ics) + -ist]This word is first recorded in the period 1785–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: depot, edit, fossilize, plateau, terrorist-ist is a suffix of nouns, often corresponding to verbs ending in -ize or nouns ending in -ism, that denote a person who practices or is concerned with something, or holds certainprinciples, doctrines, etc. Other words that use the affix -ist include: Thomist, dramatist, machinist, novelist, realist