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vicar choral en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK) Synonym of lay clerk in certain choirs.
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(UK, historical) An assistant to a canon or prebendary of a collegiate church having special responsibility for the choir as opposed to the altar.
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.
1863, Anthony Trollope, Rachel Ray:
Forms
Synonyms
lay clerk in certain choirs