"tympanist" meaning in English

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      "form": "tympanists",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "timpanist"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Howard Jacobson, Peeping Tom, page 207",
          "text": "She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative spelling of timpanist"
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          "timpanist",
          "timpanist#English"
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  "word": "tympanist"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tympanists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "tympanist (plural tympanists)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "timpanist"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Howard Jacobson, Peeping Tom, page 207",
          "text": "She did not belong either to that gentler but more rhapsodic band who seek to extract strange worshipful music from the male, the xylorimbists or tympanists or flute players.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of timpanist"
      ],
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          "timpanist",
          "timpanist#English"
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  "word": "tympanist"
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