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Definition of Cymbalists
1. cymbalist [n] - See also: cymbalist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cymbalists
Literary usage of Cymbalists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lecture on the Religious Excavations of Western India, Buddhist, Brahmanical by John Wilson (1875)
"... but steps must be taken to prevent all uproarious singers, cymbalists, drummers,
tomtom- ists, and dancers from annoying and disturbing their quiet and ..."
2. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"... near over the frozen snow, the fifers and trumpeters scarlet in the face with
lusty blowing, the drummers and the cymbalists beating as for a wager. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1910)
"The cymbalists of Ossa, play'd, To chase the moon's eclipse away,2 So went the
moonlight hours along, In this sweet glade ; and so, with song And witching ..."
4. The Sewanee Review by University of the South (1896)
"... decadents who have allowed themselves to be called Symbolists though they have
been more appropriately described by Verlaine himself as "cymbalists ". ..."
5. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"At first there was about him a trace of the fumisterie, that air of solemn
shamming, which has helped to make the Parisian " cymbalists " (as Verlaine loved ..."
6. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"... that air of solemn shamming which has helped to make the Parisian " cymbalists,"
as Verlaine loved to call them, a jest and a mockery. ..."
7. Unicorns by James Huneker (1917)
"Verlaine, in his waggish mood, persisted in spelling as "cymbalists" the Symbolists,
his own followers. Gongs would have been a better word. ..."
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