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• n  a musician who plays the lute

• Few had heard of John Dowland, the great lutanist of his time in England.
• Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer.
• Thus Pastoral Idyll: The Dance of the Nymphs, painted by Bologna's Donato Creti, suggests Watteauthe lutanist, the rapt figures, the feathery blue distance, even the .

• lutist
• lutenist