Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A male teacher of music.
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Examples
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Granville had found a music-master for her daughters, they all inquired for his name and address.
A Daughter of Eve 2007
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On the gloom of this life one sole figure of a man, that of a music-master, stood vigorously forth.
A Daughter of Eve 2007
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And when the dancing-master came, Betsinda learned along with Angelica; and when the music-master came, she watched him, and practiced the
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Podmore, the old music-master, was there too, and was delighted and astonished at the progress in singing which Morgiana had made; and when the little party separated, he took Mr. Woolsey by the hand, and said,
Mens Wives 2006
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She might annex herself to the easy-going high by wedding an old nobleman, or she might join for good and all the easy-going low, by plunging back to the level of her family, giving up all her ambitions for them, settling as the wife of a provincial music-master named
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When she was four years old she had a tender feeling towards the Buttons who brought the coals up to the nursery, or the little sweep at the crossing, or the music-master, or never mind whom.
The Virginians 2006
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The former had his reasons for overlooking the attentions of the little music-master; and as for the latter, had she not been on the stage, and had not many hundreds of persons, in jest or earnest, made love to her?
Mens Wives 2006
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Madame Cremiere and I are inclined to take her music-master for our children.
Ursula 2006
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Did my dear grandmamma, twenty or thirty years ago. think she should live to be told, that to the dancing-master, the singing or music-master, the high mode would require the gaming-master to be added for the completing of the female education?
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Well, sir, I — Mary of Scotland knew me but as a little hunchbacked music-master; and yet, and yet, I think SHE was not indifferent to her David Riz — and SHE came to misfortune.
Roundabout Papers 2006
vendingmachine commented on the word music-master
Why not "a teacher of music"? See master. Several definitions use "one", not necessarily male.
December 22, 2015
bilby commented on the word music-master
Women are seen and not heard.
December 22, 2015
rolig commented on the word music-master
Vendingmachine, don't be upset with the Century Dictionary definition; it was written more than a century ago when there were both music-masters and music-mistresses, just as there were both authors and authoresses and murderers and murderesses.
December 23, 2015