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carillonneur

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

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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noun

Etymology

Origin of carillonneur

1765–75; < French: see carillon, -eur

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

The carillonneur sits underneath the bells, in a small, glassed-in cabin that houses the upright-piano-sized part of the instrument, and plays it by depressing wooden batons and foot pedals.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2018

Cathedral carillonneur Edward M. Nassor gives a recital best heard from the Bishop’s Garden.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2017

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

"Eet ees ma name, mynheer—I am the carillonneur."

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