quirister

English

Alternative forms

quirrister (obsolete)

Noun

quirister (plural quiristers)

Alternative form of chorister
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:
  Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
  Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 110:
  'You are a tweake, aren't you, Nantwich?' said Morgan, a fat, ugly, Welsh quirister, reviled by the others but being allowed, too, into the menacing conpiracy against me.

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