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dawn choir en · NOUN

Etymology

Piecewise doublet of dawn chorus.

Meanings

1. Synonym of dawn chorus.
   • DID you know that the dawn choir performs beautifully every day and that its exquisite notes fill the early morning air? But few of us catch this melodious performance. We are still in bed, nursing a hangover from the previous night's party. 2011, Joyce Ewing-Chow, Keeping Life Simple, page 19:
   • At daybreak comes the drawling 'oo' of the Little Owl, and the shorter, more musical call of the Scops Owl. The spring dawn choir no longer fills the pause between darkness and light, and no song greets the sun's first rays. 1958, Ronald Mathias Lockley, The bird-lover's bedside book, page 150:
   • One must simply see that, Hear that noise, How on every side- or lower or higher- Like the country chattering of boys, Echoes and resounds the birds' dawn choir. 1987, Ivan Savel, Light of the hearth: poems:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dawn, choir.
   • Groups of Israeli tourists often arrive to the sound of Hebrew songs, sung in the angelic voices of the church's Dawn Choir. 1997, Shifra Horn, Shalom, Japan, page 242:

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Synonyms

dawn chorus