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carillonneur

American  
[kar-uh-luh-nur, kuh-ril-yuh-ner, ka-ree-yaw-nœr] / ˌkær ə ləˈnɜr, kəˈrɪl jə nər, ka ri jɔˈnœr /

noun

carillonneurs plural
  1. a person who plays a carillon.


carillonneur British  
/ kəˌrɪljəˈnɜː /

noun

  1. a person who plays a carillon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of carillonneur

1765–75; < French: see carillon, -eur

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“I thought, ‘When I’m going to be the carillonneur, I’m going to change the repertoire so the people are going to look up.’

From Washington Post May 11, 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

For years Mr. Lind was the carillonneur for one of the others, the one at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, before he moved to Riverside in 2000.

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2015

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)

They are carillonneurs and the first part of any performance involves ascending a tall bell tower.

From Washington Post May 11, 2022

I have known some good carillonneurs who couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag.

From Time Magazine Archive

Emphasis on the musculature of the carillonneurs was such an error.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are superb—nearly five hundred sweet-toned bells, and on of the best carillonneurs of Holland to play upon them.

From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes

"Why, that is the name of the most celebrated of carillonneurs, Van den Gheyn of Louvain."

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

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