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community singing

British  

noun

  1. singing, esp of hymns, by a large gathering of people

"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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You have the most wonderful music in the world . . . and you have robbed your people of the privilege of community singing.

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The 12,000 sailors in Cromarty Firth worked off their energy by community singing, not "The Red Flag" but their own old ballad, "The Frothblowers' Anthem."

From Time Magazine Archive

There was bobbing for apples, a game called "musical bumps," other Roosevelt family games without names, community singing.

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A corps of ambulances attended to members of the crowd of 134,170 who fainted in the heat or were crushed swaying back & forth in community singing led by Sir Harry Lauder.

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Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who was an ordained Methodist minister, pronounced the invocation and the community singing at this and all sessions was led by Mrs. W.D.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper

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