choirboys in English

noun
1
a boy who sings in a church or cathedral choir.
Like Belle & Sebastian and Isobel Campbell, she was dismissed as twee, all the more so when she sang like an overgrown choirgirl on her later albums.

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1. From the Cambridge English Corpus The Choirboys …

2. Him and Charlie was choirboys together.

3. Choirboys is an Australian hard rock and Australian pub rock band from Sydney formed as Choirboys in 1979 with mainstays Mark Gable, Ian Hulme..

4. Choirboy There the mellifluous voices of Choirboys, the harmony of improvised polyphony, and the cadences of locally composed plainchant incited the populace to veneration

5. Informal A morally upright young man: "They're Choirboys—clean, scrubbed nothings—so there's no dramatic or psychological preparation for the explosion of killing" (Pauline Kael).

6. ‘Priests, Acolytes and choirboys pad round a central tent that represents the holy of holies, the spiritual home of the Ark.’ ‘When that was done, the nun asked whether my sister and I wished to serve as Acolytes at the service.’ ‘In Africa it is sacred to the priesthood or Acolytes, in …