carillonneur
Americannoun
plural
carillonneursnoun
Etymology
Origin of carillonneur
Example Sentences
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Artists can take over and “play” billboards and the chapel like a carillonneur playing a carillon.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022
UW’s new carillon is “a gorgeous instrument,” said carillonneur Wesley Arai, who has played 40 to 50 carillons around the country.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2018
Following the Eucharist, cathedral carillonneur Edward M. Nassor gives a recital best heard from the Bishop’s Garden.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2017
If God inhabits the firmament, Mr. Lind’s workplace puts him closer to God than the ministers, the choir and the congregation at the Riverside Church, where he is the carillonneur.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2015
The old carillonneur, Jean Courtray, began to speak in a low voice of his art, his profession, and of the great carillon of forty-six bells in the ancient tower of Sainte Lesse.
From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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