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- noun A
female choirmaster .
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Examples
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At any rate, confronted by a choirmistress who glared at me and told me I sounded like someone driving nails through sheet metal, I cringed and failed and felt sick with shame and inadequacy; confronted by a choirmaster who beams at me, and whose teaching method boils down to Boundless Encouragement!
Thursday lunch break... Imogen 2008
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At any rate, confronted by a choirmistress who glared at me and told me I sounded like someone driving nails through sheet metal, I cringed and failed and felt sick with shame and inadequacy; confronted by a choirmaster who beams at me, and whose teaching method boils down to Boundless Encouragement!
Archive 2008-12-01 Imogen 2008
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REESE: ... and I was the choirmistress and I was conducting the choir.
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