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librettist

DEFINITIONS OF: librettist

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n author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta

Examples:
William Schwenk Gilbert
a librettist who was a collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in a famous series of comic operettas (1836-1911)
Type of:
author, writer
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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