triangulist

English

Etymology

triangle +‎ -ist

Noun

triangulist (plural triangulists)

1. 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.

   • 1968, James Saunders, Neighbours: And Other Plays‎^[2], page 175:

     So, those who wish to apply for the position of triangulist, hands up please.

   • 1975, George Seltzer, The Professional symphony orchestra in the United States‎^[3], page 171:

     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.

   • 1977, Country Life, Volume 162‎^[4], page 611:

     A rich and varied life, a good deal more interesting than that of Hindemith's classically-minded triangulist.

   • 1982, The Washingtonian, Volume 17‎^[5], page 200:

     Backstage after the concert, the maestro rewards the triumphant triangulist with his trademarked embrace.

   • 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.

   • 2013, Chris Lynch, Scratch and the Sniffs‎^[7], page 36:

     Jerome was getting to be one feisty little triangulist.