vicar choral

English

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Noun

vicar choral (plural vicars choral)

  1. (UK) Synonym of lay clerk in certain choirs.
  2. (UK, historical) An assistant to a canon or prebendary of a collegiate church having special responsibility for the choir as opposed to the altar.
    • 1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
      He managed the property of the dean and chapter, and knew what were the rights, and also what were the wrongs, of prebendaries and minor canons,—of vicars choral, and even of choristers.
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