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Webster 1913 Edition
Sightsman
Sights′man
,Noun.
pl.
Sightsmen
. (Mus.)
One who reads or performs music readily at first sight.
[R.]
Busby.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sightsman
SIGHTSMAN
,Noun.
Definition 2024
sightsman
sightsman
English
Noun
sightsman (plural sightsmen)
- (dated, music) A sight-reader.
- 1842, The Musical World (volume 17, page 268)
- […] indeed the lessons are evidently the production of a man who either never knew, or has forgotten, the elementary steps and helps necessary to make the future sightsman.
- 1842, The Musical World (volume 17, page 268)
References
- Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical.