Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- The seats for the choir of a church, whether in the chancel, on a platform, or in a gallery: used collectively of the location of the singers in general.
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Examples
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When she raised her eyes she could see Miss Whiton's coldly regular features conspicuous in their clean-cut fairness among the younger instructors in the choir-seats behind the trustees on the platform.
Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Julia Augusta Schwartz
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Jan learned to sing, and to sing very well; and he was put into the choir-seats in the old church, where he sang with enthusiasm hymns which he had learned by heart from the schoolmaster.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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