subchanter

noun

subchanter

noun

Etymology From sub- + chanter.

1

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:

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