Definitions
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- noun obsolete A chorister boy.
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- noun obsolete A
chorister boy .
Etymologies
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French, diminutive of clerc. See clerk.
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Examples
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Is there not a breath of the cloister in all this, reminding one of the child martyr in Chaucer's "Prioresse Tale," the "litel clergeon, seven yeer of age"?
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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