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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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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

A onetime country schoolteacher, fond of speechifying and community singing, he started reporting for the Nashville Tennessean in 1926, eventually became its managing editor.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

This community singing became immensely popular and did much to promote patriotic fervor as well as to entertain those in attendance.

From Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls by Carsey, Alice

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