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  • noun A person who sings carols; a carol singer
  • noun A bard.

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  • noun a singer of carols

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Examples

  • Nightingale of Ceiriog, the sweet caroller Huw Morus, the enthusiastic partizan of Charles and the Church of England, and the never-tiring lampooner of Oliver and the Independents.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • On the whole, in spite of some mystical exceptions, the mediaeval English carol is somewhat external in its religion; there is little deep individual feeling; the caroller sings as a member of the human race, whose curse is done away, whose nature is exalted by the Incarnation, rather than as one whose soul is athirst for God: --

    Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

  • Omit them, at the same time banning the house-to-house caroller, and you tyrannically limit men's devotional impulses.

    From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • The common thrush often sings far into the night, and the sedge-warbler is a persistent caroller that has often been mistaken for the nightingale.

    Birds in the Calendar 1894

  • Nightingale of Ceiriog, the sweet caroller Huw Morus, the enthusiastic partizan of Charles and the Church of England, and the never-tiring lampooner of Oliver and the Independents.

    The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842

  • He's turned Army wives into show-stopping singers - but can The Choir's Gareth Malone make me a competent caroller?

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Peter Stanford 2011

  • And her advice for the casual, once a year caroller?

    BBC News - Home 2010

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