Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female singer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female chanter or singer.
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- noun A female
singer orchanter .
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Examples
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For example, the chantress Hailrat of Engelthal was at Matins on the fourth Sunday of Advent when she and the other nuns sang the fifth response Virgo Israel.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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According to God, the former chantress had not always sung the Office, even though she had a pleasant voice.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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[Gertrude of Colmar, the chantress at Unterlinden] made sure that she was the first to come into the choir, and devoted a great deal of care to ensuring that all the sisters sang their psalms to God harmoniously, loudly and solemnly, in whatever way was fitting to each solemnity and season.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The same chantress was in the choir one day when she "heard with her bodily ears and saw" a vision. 57 It was of a recently deceased nun, who had been chantress in her own day.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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If she is delighted with the chants, Honeyman is delighted with the chantress and her mamma.
The Newcomes 2006
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The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket - holes — was ill all the night.
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The abbess of Quedlingberg, who with the four great dignitaries of her chapter, the prioress, the deaness, the sub-chantress, and senior canonness, had that week come to Strasburg to consult the university upon a case of conscience relating to their placket-holes — was ill all the night.
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The collection includes the coffin of Lady Tahat, a chantress in the temple of Amun, and a set of nested coffins for Tasheret, a lady-in-waiting to Nubian princesses, and, most intriguing, a still-wrapped male whose arms are crossed over his chest in a manner reserved for royal mummies.
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The crossing lay as the en-chantress had promised, a row of flat boulders spanning the dark rush of current like footings of an incomplete bridge.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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If she is delighted with the chants, Honeyman is delighted with the chantress and her mamma.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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