triangle + -ist
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.
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.