Crossword-Solution: LUTIST 6 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

When it was the Two Hundred and Sixty-eighth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Ala al-Din looked at the King's daughter, he saw with her a young lady to whom he heard her say, "Thy company hath cheered me, O Zubaydah." So he looked straitly at the damsel and found her to be none other than his dead wife, Zubaydah the Lutist.

Allah forfend,' quoth she, * By heirship, sire to sire's transmission!'" And the following is related of MOHAMMED AL-AMIN AND THE SLAVE-GIRL Ja'afar bin Musα al-Hαdi[FN#133] once had a slave-girl, a lutist, called Al-Badr al-Kabνr, than whom there was not in her time a fairer of face nor shapelier of shape nor a more elegant of manners nor a more accomplished in the art of singing and striking the strings; she was indeed perfect in beauty and extreme in every charm.

Refinement was the aphrodisiac of a sated society, and millinery formed a main ingredient in its love-philters.[190] Marino, therefore, took the carnal instincts for granted, and played upon them as a lutist plays the strings of some lax thrilling instrument.

The lutist is admirable as he looks down at his instrument to catch the note; capital also is the boy playing the double pipe, with the close drapery swirling about his plump limbs, as one sees in San Francesco of Rimini, that temple dedicated to Isotta and to Childhood.

Mattheson, who wrote in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the lute was still cultivated, said that a lutist of eighty years must have spent nearly sixty in tuning his instrument.