[f. LIBRETTO + -IST.] The writer of a libretto; a writer of librettos.
1862. Sunday Times, 3 Aug. Of all themes, we imagine the captivity of Judah the most likely to make a librettist rhapsodical, and a musician uninteresting.
1891. Times, 8 Oct., 7/4. The oratorio by Professor Stanford … set, not to the compilation of the ordinary librettist, but to a real poem.
