improvisator
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English
Etymology
From improvise + -ator, after French improvisateur and Italian improvvisatore.[1]
Noun
improvisator (plural improvisators)
- Someone who improvises; improviser.
- An improvisatore.
- 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D Lawler, “ Chap VIII.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. , volume IV, London: Corri, ; and sold by Colburn, , and Mackenzie, , →OCLC, page 144:
- They did not offer the people those gross pleasures which brutalize them; but they gave them music, paintings, improvisators, and festivals, and the government watched over the people as a sultan does over his seraglio.
References
- “improvisator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “improvisator, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
