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Definition of Caroller
1. Noun. A singer of carols.
Generic synonyms: Singer, Vocaliser, Vocalist, Vocalizer
Derivative terms: Carol, Carol
Definition of Caroller
1. Noun. A person who sings carols; a carol singer ¹
2. Noun. A bard. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caroller
1. caroler [n -S] - See also: caroler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caroller
Literary usage of Caroller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"The days of preparation went by with a silence broken but by the caroller's song
and the pipes of the waits upon the three Thursdays before Christmas Day. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... the spirit too querulous; it wants the exulting and exalting notes of the
caroller who soars to the skies and dwells blissfully in the turf, ..."
3. The First Half of the Seventeenth Century by Herbert John Clifford Grierson (1906)
"But perhaps the most delightful is the light-hearted caroller Merrythought in
The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Scott was fond of quoting in his Journals ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1877)
"... breaking it with light, comes poetry :— sleeps Upon a beechen bough in the
far Tli ere fluttered by Wings of the merle, gay caroller, who forest deeps. ..."
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