Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pianist : sometimes used as if it were the feminine form of that word.
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Examples
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After dinner, we watched two very good films, Michael Haneke's La pianiste (2001) and Nikolai Müllerschön's Der rote Baron (2008).
Howard Hughes and the Wayback Machine greygirlbeast 2010
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Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Pianist) (1960) also begins with a man running, before he collides with a lamp-post.
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After dinner, we watched two very good films, Michael Haneke's La pianiste (2001) and Nikolai Müllerschön's Der rote Baron (2008).
Howard Hughes and the Wayback Machine greygirlbeast 2010
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“Ne dit pas a ma mère que je travail dans le télé, elle pense que je suis pianiste dans une bordelle!” to parapharase Seguéla.
nique sa mère 2008
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La pianiste: [roman]/traduit de l'allemand par Y. Hoffmann et M. Litaize.
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The violinist played a tune and the pianiste began hammering the first figure of a quadrille on the piano, to the tune of a most merry Russian song.
Resurrection 2003
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Near the start of Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste there is a deft moment of authorial cheek.
Night for Day Barnes, Julian 1990
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"Four years ago she did not know her notes, and four years 'practice cannot be expected to make a perfect pianiste."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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No, a modest phrase must express honest pride -- "my reputation as a pianiste which I guard sedulously," or "defend zealously."
Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin
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Then came the simple, perfect phrasing -- "my reputation as a pianiste, of which I am somewhat jealous."
Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin
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