Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
choir-master .
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Examples
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Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A. and choir-leader of the Chatham Road Church.
Babbit 2004
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Thus stimulated, Babbitt was reckless when he encountered Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A. and choir-leader of the Chatham Road Church.
Babbitt 1922
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Thus stimulated, Babbitt was reckless when he encountered Sheldon Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A. and choir-leader of the Chatham Road Church.
Chapter 32 1922
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Smeeth, educational director of the Y.M.C.A. and choir-leader of the
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918
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The choir-leader had expected his home-coming to be crowned by a vision very different.
Fran 1913
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It was easy enough to distinguish him from the singers who crowded the platform, not only by his baton which proclaimed the choir-leader, but by his resemblance to the picture she had discovered in a New York Sunday Supplement.
Fran 1913
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I remember at one church service that the choir-leader was standing in front of the massed choir ostensibly leading the singing, but that
Acres of Diamonds: our every-day opportunities Russell Herman Conwell 1884
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Mr. Simmons, the choir-leader (whenever he could get there), flushed and seemed about to say something.
Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way William Osborn Stoddard 1880
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I remember at one church service that the choir-leader was standing in front of the massed choir ostensibly leading the singing, but that Conwell himself, standing at the rear of the pulpit platform, with his eyes on his hymn-book, silently swaying a little with the music and unconsciously beating time as he swayed, was just as unconsciously the real leader, for it was he whom the congregation were watching and with him that they were keeping time!
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I remember at one church service that the choir-leader was standing in front of the massed choir ostensibly leading the singing, but that Conwell himself, standing at the rear of the pulpit platform, with his eyes on his hymn-book, silently swaying a little with the music and unconsciously beating time as he swayed, was just as unconsciously the real leader, for it was he whom the congregation were watching and with him that they were keeping time!
Acres of Diamonds Conwell, Russell H 1915
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