Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as improvisator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See improvvisatore.

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  • noun An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.

Etymologies

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Italian improvvisatore.

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Examples

  • As I drove along I saw a small crowd at one of the street corners -- a gesticulating, laughing crowd, listening to an "improvisatore" or wandering poet -- a plump-looking fellow who had all the rhymes of

    Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Marie Corelli 1889

  • In the figure of the beautiful, flamboyant poet and improvisatore Corinne, de Staël created a fictional character who became an international symbol of Romanticism, quite as much as Goethe's Werther or Byron's Corsair.

    The Great de Staël Holmes, Richard 2009

  • He was ecstatic, unmeasured, a reckless improvisatore.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • He was ecstatic, unmeasured, a reckless improvisatore.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The camp-fires were lighted; and round them — eating, reposing, talking, looking at the merry steps of the dancing-girls, or listening to the stories of some Dhol Baut (or Indian improvisatore) were thousands of dusky soldiery.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Italian rabble, in another the improvisatore, by the pathos of his story, and the persuasive sensibility of his strains, was holding the attention of his auditors, as in the bands of magic.

    The Italian 2004

  • Antonio Malatesti was a man of mark in his time, being distinguished for his talent as an improvisatore.

    Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 Various

  • The whole party was bidden to her christening a month later, and Edward Lysaght, equally famous as a lawyer and an improvisatore, undertook to make the necessary vows in her name.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • The gentler sort have either been scared by the improvisatore warblings of

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

  • The Italian, with her glibness of tongue and ready fund of anecdote, was transformed in her imaginative mind into a veritable improvisatore.

    Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason

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