xylorimbist

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English

Etymology

From xylorimba +‎ -ist.

Noun

xylorimbist (plural xylorimbists)

  1. (rare) Someone who plays a xylorimba.
    • 1929 October, Boys' Life, 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.