Meanings
nounquirister (plural quiristers)
plural quiristers · alternative obsolete quirrister
- alternativeAlternative form of chorister.
Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole, Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 2141 more example
'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.
1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 110
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