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
“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
On Thursday, the instrument will be played by carillonneur Wesley Arai.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2018
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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