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xylorimbist

xylorimbist

English

Noun

xylorimbist (plural xylorimbists)

  1. (rare) Someone who plays a xylorimba.
    • 1929, Boys' Life (October 1929, page 54)
      As a xylorimbist you put new pep into any party — "make" the school orchestra — maybe even pay your way through college.
    • 1999, Howard Jacobson, Peeping Tom (page 207)
      She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players.