triangulist
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]triangulist (plural triangulists)
- A person who plays the triangle.
- 1964, The Spectator, Volume 213[1], page 47:
- 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.
- 2007, Jonathan L. Larson, Whose Critical Thinking? Political Processes and Regimes of Voice in Western Slovakia, 1948-2005[6], page 343:
- 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.