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quirister

English

Alternative forms

  • quirrister (obsolete)

Noun

quirister (plural quiristers)

  1. Alternative form of chorister
    • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 214[1]:
      Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
      Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
    • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 110):
      'You are a tweake, aren't you, Nantwich?' said Morgan, a fat, ugly, Welsh quirister, reviled by the others but being allowed, too, into the menacing conpiracy against me.

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chorister

English

Etymology

Derived from choir +? -ster, from late Middle English queristre, from an Anglo-Norman variant of Old French cueriste, from cuer (see Middle French cuer).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k???st?(?)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?k???st??/

Noun

chorister (plural choristers)

  1. A singer in a choir.
  2. A director or leader of a choral group.

Synonyms

  • quirister

Translations

Anagrams

  • herstoric, rhetorics, torchiers

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