choirman

Updated: May 18, 2025

Francoise was at once dispatched to the grocer's, but returned empty-handed owing to the absence of Theodore, whose dual profession of choirman, with a part in the maintenance of the fabric, and of grocer's assistant gave him not only relations with all sections of society, but an encyclopaedic knowledge of their affairs. "Ah!" my aunt would sigh, "I wish it were time for Eulalie to come.

Marcel Proust - Swann's Way

With the other as there was no second clerk he was carrying the holy-water vessel, and he likewise represented the choirman, the rural guard, who had been unable to come. 'Come in, too, you others, he exclaimed, turning round. There was a second funeral, that of Rosalie's baby, who had died the previous day from an attack of convulsions.

Émile Zola - Abbe Mouret's Transgression