Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book containing music for a choir or chorus.
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Examples
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The first step in the evolution of the Breviary was the separation of the Psalter into a choir-book.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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This instance is taken from a large choir-book, probably of French, certainly of
Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel John Ruskin 1859
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It occurs in the choir-book of the monks of St. Gall in Switzerland, and was probably composed by Notker, surnamed the St.mmerer, about the end of the ninth century, or the beginning of the tenth.
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[48] a hired shepherd, or hidden himself under the cowl in a cloister; and Raphael, as if at work on choir-book or missal, still applies symbolical gilding for natural sunlight.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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