Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who sings or is employed to sing, as in cathedrals.
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Examples
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Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of
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Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a seacoal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Act II. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a _singing-man of Windsor_.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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We must transcribe her story: 'Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun-week, when the Prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife.
Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891
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I would have gone to him, after the first petrifying instant of surprise, but the singing-man stopped me.
Everyman's Land 1889
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Then I will buy a handsome house, together with slaves and horses and trappings of gold, and eat and drink, nor will I leave a singing-man or woman in the city but I will have them to sing to me.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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He replied, "No I am not a thief, but a singing-man, a stranger who, hearing your voices, came to sing to you."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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His father, who was of the same name, and who died about three months before the birth of his son, had been writing-master to a classical school, singing-man in Bristol cathedral, and master of the free-school in Pyle-street in that city; and is related to have been inclined to a belief in magic, and deeply versed in Cornelius Agrippa.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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Wood says that after the Restoration he became gentleman or singing-man of Christ Church, Oxford.
The Lucasta Poems Richard Lovelace 1637
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Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of
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