Definition of "quiristers" []

• Plural form of quirister. (noun)

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• "Just around the corner to the right lies Pilgrims 'School, which educates the choristers for the cathedral and the quiristers for the College."
• ""That if anie Knight, or other persone entituled to weare spurs, enter the chappell in that guise, he shall pay to y'e quiristers the accustomed fine; but if he command y'e youngest quirister to repeate his _Gamut_, and he faile in y'e so doing, the said"
• "And first I'le begin with her cheife seat the Cathedrall, which was consecrated in Hen. the I. time; and though the same be but small and plaine, yet it is very lightsome and pleasant: her quire is neatly adorn'd with many small pillars of marble; her organs though small yet are they rich and neat; her quiristers though but few, yet orderly and decent. ""