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Definition of Choirboy
1. Noun. A boy who sings in a choir.
Definition of Choirboy
1. Noun. a boy chorister ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Choirboy
1. a boy who sings in a choir (a body of church singers) [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choirboy
Literary usage of Choirboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"198-99) This last entry clearly reveals Hopkins dallying, a month later, with a
remembrance of that Magdalen choirboy (with a bit of masturbatory suggestion ..."
2. The History of Music: A Handbook and Guide for Students by Waldo Selden Pratt (1907)
"born about 1582 and a choirboy at St. Paul's, though not greater than several of the
... 1625), born in 1583 and a choirboy at King's College, Cambridge, ..."
3. British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and by James Duff Brown, Stephen Samuel Stratton (1897)
"choirboy, Ashbourne Parish Church, to 1869, when his parents removed to Soar-
borough. ... choirboy at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Dundee, and pupil of WH ..."
4. Memoirs of a Winnerby Gary Ward Scott by Gary Ward Scott (2007)
"I had the creepy feeling about "the choirboy," that "his" billfold and coin-keys
case, could just as well have been "his" life to take. ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"Strasburg Cathedral ; a procession passing along the nave ; a choirboy swinging
a censer turns his face and looks at the spectator. ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by Charles Newell Boyd, Waldo Selden Pratt (1920)
"began as a choirboy and by 1872 was a regular organist. He had thorough training
in technique and composition from NH Allen, then organist in New Bedford, ..."
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