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MADRIGALIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does madrigalist mean?
• MADRIGALIST (noun)
The noun MADRIGALIST has 1 sense:
1. a singer of madrigals
Familiarity information: MADRIGALIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A singer of madrigals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("madrigalist" is a kind of...):
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
Derivation:
madrigal (an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form)
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