chorist

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  1. A singer in a choir. [Rare.] Behold the great chorist of the angelical quire. Partheneia Sacra (1633), p. 150.
  2. In Greek antiquity, a member of the chorus. In the Lenæan festival of Athens one of his [Dionysius's] tragedies had been rewarded with the first prize. A chorist who had been employed in the performance … was the first to communicate the news. Grote, Greece, XI. ii. 46.

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  1. = Dutch korist = German chorist, korist = Danish korist, from French choriste = Spanish Portuguese Italian corista, from Middle Latin chorista (also chorialis), from Latin chorus, choir: see chorus, and cf. chorister.
 

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