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triangulist en · NOUN

Etymology

From triangle + -ist.

Meanings

1. A person who plays the triangle.
   • In the 1964 Slovak film, The Case of Barnabas Kos (Solan 1964), the lead character is a rather ordinary, somewhat lazy or absent-minded triangulist for an orchestra whom the board promotes to business manager against his will. 2007, Jonathan L. Larson, Whose Critical Thinking? Political Processes and Regimes of Voice in Western Slovakia, 1948-2005, page 343:
   • Mr. Church plays well enough for even his rebukes to sniggering children to be enjoyable: when it turns out that none of them will take over the vacant triangle in the school orchestra because the last triangulist's hair fell out, it is all faintly sinister. 1964, The Spectator, Volume 213, page 47:
   • Backstage after the concert, the maestro rewards the triumphant triangulist with his trademarked embrace. 1982, The Washingtonian, Volume 17, page 200:
   • So, those who wish to apply for the position of triangulist, hands up please. 1968, James Saunders, Neighbours: And Other Plays, page 175:
   • Jerome was getting to be one feisty little triangulist. 2013, Chris Lynch, Scratch and the Sniffs, page 36:
   • A rich and varied life, a good deal more interesting than that of Hindemith's classically-minded triangulist. 1977, Country Life, Volume 162, page 611:
   • Of course, we know the difference between good and bad triangulists... but one refuses to see in the sporadic triangle tinkling the ultimate purpose of a human being's earthly existence. 1975, George Seltzer, The Professional symphony orchestra in the United States, page 171:

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