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Definition of Chaunter
1. n. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.
Definition of Chaunter
1. one that chaunts [n -S] - See also: chaunts
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaunter
Literary usage of Chaunter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"The running patterer ... is accompanied generally by a chaunter . ... The chaunter
having practically disappeared, his poet has gone with him. 1781. ..."
2. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or by Joseph Lemuel Chester (1876)
"6 Mr. Matthew Holmes, chaunter:2 [Chistera]. Aug. ... He is mentioned, as then
chaunter, in Dean Goodman's will, dated 2 Mch. 1600-1. ..."
3. The Lady's Travels Into Spain: Or, A Genuine Relation of the Religion, Laws by Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine) (1808)
"The Master of the children of the choir, the chaunter, and the Treasurer, each
four thousand. Six Canons, each three thousand. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The chaunter had seven finger-holes and a vent-hole in front, and a thumb-hole
at the back. The drone was tuned to G, an octave below the ..."
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