quirister
English
Alternative forms
- quirrister (obsolete)
Noun
quirister (plural quiristers)
- Alternative form of chorister
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 214:
- Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
- Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin, OCLC 17841394, page 110:
- 'You are a tweake, aren't you, Nantwich?' said Morgan, a fat, ugly, Welsh quirister, reviled by the others but being allowed, too, into the menacing conpiracy against me.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 214:
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