tunestern.
/ˈtjuːnstə/ Chiefly U.S.
A song-writer or singer; a musician, composer.
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1903 R. Hughes Love Affairs of Great Musicians I. xii. 126 (heading) A few tunesters of France and Italy—Peri, Monteverdi, et al.
1935 Amer. Speech 10 154/2 Singers are now tunesters to advertisement writers for vaudeville and other entertainments.
1936 N.Y. World-Telegram 22 Aug. 14/4 At that studio, too, are Mack Gordon and Harry Revell, best known of all movie tunesters.
1983 Washington Post 9 May b11/1 Luigi Proietti as a tour guide is pretty lively and alert, like a merry tunester at a funeral.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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