英语词汇“chantress”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

chantress

释义

chantress|ˈtʃɑːntrɪs, ˈtʃæ-|
Forms: 5 chaunteresse, 6 chanteres, 7 -esse, chauntress, 7– chantress.
[a. OF. chanteresse, fem. of chantere, -eor, singer: see chanter¹ and -ess.]
†1. A female magician, sorceress, enchantress.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, Albe she were a passynge sorceresse And chefest named of any chaunteresse.
2. A female chanter or singer; a singing woman; a songstress; also of birds, etc. arch. or poet.
1450–1530Myrr. Our Ladye 36 Hys syster Mary was chyfe chanteres in the womens quyer.1624Wotton Archit. (1672) 66 Those Chanteresses..may live long among so good provisions.1632Milton Penseroso 63 Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even⁓song.1791Boswell Johnson (1831) I. 312 She was sister to the Reverend River Jones, chanter of Christ Church Cathedral at Oxford, and Johnson used to call her the chantress.1830R. E. Egerton-Warburton Hunting Songs (1883) 3 With Chorister, Concord, and Chorus, Now Chantress commences her song.

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