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noun

Choir n.

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. (Formerly written also quire)

That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

(Arch.) The chancel.

Choir organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir.

Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles.

Choir service, the service of singing performed by the choir.

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Etymology of 'Choir'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Choir" Quotes from Famous Books

... clean, whether she happened to be very busy, or whether it had been Sunday, and, with her very best gown on, she was out for a promenade in the Baan, after duly going to service as regularly as the Sabbath dawned in the grand old Gothic choir of the cathedral. ...

— Stories By English Authors: Germany • Various

... the Church as a scholar or an ascetic. Her structure stood firm, and no one need now-a-days break his back in the effort to hold her up. Let him write his madrigals (he had a turn for verse-making) and not become a fixture in his seat in the choir through too close an attendance there. The terms were easy, and Caponsacchi became a priest, no worse and no better than he was expected to be; but with the feelings and purposes of a truer manhood lying ...

— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... no tricks or tours de force; in no atmosphere of darkened footlights and smell of sawdust; but in frank and free novel-fashion, with a Venetian church, a famous maestro (Porpora), a choir of mostly Italian girls, and the little Spanish gipsy Consuelo, the poorest, humblest, plainest (as most people think) of all the bevy, but the possessor of the rarest vocal faculties and the most happiness-producing-and-diffusing ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury

... with the King in the tribune, facing the grand altar and the choir, with the exception of the days of high ceremony, when their chairs were placed below upon velvet carpets fringed with gold. These days were marked by the name of grand ...

— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan

... standing in one of the choir-stalls of San Giorgio Maggiore, somewhat raised above the point where Ashe had been studying his ...

— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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