quirister

English

Alternative forms

• quirrister (obsolete)

Noun

quirister (plural quiristers)

1. Alternative form of chorister
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:

     Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
     Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.

   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 110:

     '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.