choir loft

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noun

a gallery in a church in which the choir is placed.

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Origin of choir loft

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby choir loft

Chogyal, choice, choir, choirboy, choirgirl, choir loft, choirmaster, choir school, Choiseul, choke, choke back

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How to use choir loft in a sentence

I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing.|Michael Tomasky|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Here it is being performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir.
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing.|Michael Tomasky|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.
U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack|Gordon G. Chang|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But I was a choir geek, and then got frustrated and took an acting class and realized that was the thing for me.
Michael C. Hall on Going Drag for ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ and Exorcising ‘Dexter’|Marlow Stern|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It was in the vestry where the choir was putting on its garments.
Joseph Campbell on the Roots of Halloween|Joseph Campbell|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She should not show panic because of the mysterious noise in the loft of the abandoned Carter house.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
When fifteen he became voluntary organist and choir-master to the Birkenhead School Chapel.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
B'lieves in candles and vestures; got Tim into the choir one Sunday, and now you can't keep him out of it.
The Cromptons|Mary J. Holmes
The body is an octagon of thirty-two feet diameter; and the choir, of the same shape, is twenty-one feet in diameter.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham

British Dictionary definitions for choir loft

choir loft

noun

a gallery in a cathedral, abbey, or church used by the choir

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