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carillonneur

[ kar-uh-luh-nuror, especially British, kuh-ril-yuh-ner; French ka-ree-yaw-nœr ]

noun

, plural car·il·lon·neurs [kar-, uh, -l, uh, -, nurz, k, uh, -, ril, -y, uh, -nerz, k, a, -, r, ee-yaw-, nœr].
  1. a person who plays a carillon.


carillonneur

/ 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of carillonneur1

1765–75; < French: carillon, -eur
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Example Sentences

Artists can take over and “play” billboards and the chapel like a carillonneur playing a carillon.

“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.’

“It’s just sort of broadcast, so there’s a responsibility, I think the carillonneur has, to play music that everyone is able to appreciate.”

He recalled in 2018 that he met a student carillonneur while the two were studying organ together.

When the National Film Board of Canada climbed up the tower for a 1951 documentary, Robert Donnell, the carillonneur at the time, prepared for a performance as if he was getting ready to brawl.

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