[f. FLUTE sb.1 + -IST. Cf. Fr. flûtiste.] A player on the flute.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xxxix. 125. Antisthenes made it as an argument of little valour in Ismenias, when some commended him to be an excellent Flutist.
1775. J. Collier, Musical Trav., 45. That great flutist and warrior the King of Prussia.
1862. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), VII. lv. 37. He drove in pomp through the city, in the chariot in which Augustus had triumphed, with the flutist Diodorus by his side, arrayed in a purple robe and a mantle blazing with golden stars, wearing on his head the Olympian coronal, and waving the Pythian in his hand.
