choric
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of choric
1810–20; < Late Latin choricus < Greek chorikós, equivalent to chor ( ós ) chorus + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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Hardy plays Mark, a minicab driver who has a choric function, singing about his own expertise on the subject of psychopathic homicide.
From The Guardian
This choric hostility was in both cases essentially socio-cultural, and not literary.
From The Guardian
They also function as a choric background against which the poet can strike his lonely, heroic poses.
From The New Yorker
But the show's originality lies in the way Cork has helped to shape and reorder verbatim speech to create a piece of choric theatre.
From The Guardian
John Cooper Clarke has a great choric cameo with a poem entitled Pity the Plight of Young Fellows.
From The Guardian
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