improvisator
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From improvise + -ator, after French improvisateur and Italian improvvisatore.[1]
Noun
[edit]improvisator (plural improvisators)
- Someone who improvises; improviser.
- An improvisatore.
- 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XV. The Farewell to Rome, and the Journey to Venice.] Chap[ter] 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
[edit]- “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.
