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  • noun A male chorister (in a church choir)

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Examples

  • A trained choirman, Arjun left the Choristry in Gad to search for their missing god called the Voice.

    "Thunderer" by Felix Gilman (Bantam Spectra) Paul 2009

  • A trained choirman, Arjun left the Choristry in Gad to search for their missing god called the Voice.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Paul 2009

  • In his distress for his father, the infidel choirman fell on his knees and cried, "O God, if there is a God, show Thy power by taking away, my father's pain!"

    The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971

  • Françoise was at once dispatched to the grocer's, but returned empty-handed owing to the absence of Théodore, whose dual profession of choirman, with a part in the maintenance of the fabric, and of grocer's assistant gave him not only relations with all sections of society, but an encyclopaedic knowledge of their affairs.

    Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896

  • With the other -- as there was no second clerk -- he was carrying the holy-water vessel, and he likewise represented the choirman, the rural guard, who had been unable to come.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • Théodore, whose dual profession of choirman, with a part in the maintenance of the fabric, and of grocer’s assistant gave him not only relations with all sections of society, but an encyclopaedic knowledge of their affairs.

    Swann's Way 2003

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