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Definition of Duettists
1. duettist [n] - See also: duettist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duettists
Literary usage of Duettists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"Derou- ville Nancey, duettists and dancers, and Belle Black, vocalist, made their
American debut ... operatic duettists, were seen on the same date. Mile. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1879)
"Bridget Miles, aged twenty-seven, died suddenly at her lodgings on Nov. 10.
Deceased and her husband were wellknown Irish duettists, and were fulfilling an ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"And those admirable duellists—" duettists ". for once—MR. GLADSTONE (and let Mr.
Punch, en passant, congratulate the Party and the Public on his first act ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"What the great army of miscellaneous itinerants—the cornet and clarinet players,
the piccolo and harp duettists, the man with the zither, ..."
5. Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon: From Ajaccio to Waterloo, as Soldier by Laure Junot Abrantès (1901)
"It was said of La Forest, one of the opera singers, that he must have a wooden
voice; this would not have been ill applied to the royal duettists. ..."
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