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Chorister's big moment
Answer for the clue "Chorister's big moment ", 4 letters:
solo
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Word definitions for solo in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "piece of music for one voice or instrument," from Italian solo , literally "alone," from Latin solus "alone" (see sole (adj.)). As an adjective in English from 1712, originally in the non-musical sense of "alone, unassisted;" in reference to aircraft ...
Usage examples of solo.
San Francisco in 1852 as solo pianist and accompanist with the famous Catherine Hayes.
And farther down the river, when slaves danced outside their cabins, the banjoist took a solo turn.
Warily, Solo slid out of the booth, bolstered his blaster, and continued on toward the lobby, flipping a coin to the bartender as he passed.
Solo stood up, flipped a couple of credits to the bartender, and stalked out before BoShek could catch his attention.
Something else the Globe reported caught my eye: Bernet had recently been promoted to stand-in for the prima ballerina and had, in fact, performed her first solo the night of her disappearance.
A solo mole person, however, burrowing away at random, was likely to starve long before stumbling across the scattered bounty.
Solo was immersed beneath a blanket of hooting, jostling, inexperienced assailants.
A master horologe, whose duty it was to determine the intime of returning pilots according to complicated formulae weighting Einsteinian time distortions against the unpredictable deformations of the manifold, had told me that Soli had aged one hundred and three years this last journey and would have died but for the skills of the Lord Cetic.
They saw Solo as a non-stoppable, expendable weapon, manipulatable and malleable as any normal computer.
If she goes to the Metronome with anyone else he looks daggers over his piano-accordion and comes across and sneers at them during the solo number.
For as there had been no monody, so there had been no solo singing, and as the operas of the first three-quarters of this century, in spite of the improvements of Monteverde, consisted mostly of recitative, there was still no singing in the modern acceptation of the term.
By the end of the year, Hawk had made his first solo flight and had overseen the construction of an landing field, complete with hangar and windsock, outside the gates of Wolf House.
The public has so long listened to these funereal solos that if a few of the poets thus impatient to be gone were to go, their departure would perhaps be attended by that resigned speeding which the proverb invokes on behalf of the parting guest.
Patuca River, a place called Pito Solo, the last real settlement on the river before the big interior swamps begin.
Then without further ado Siegfried departs on his expedition, taking Gunther with him to the foot of the mountain, and leaving Hagen to guard the hall and sing a very fine solo which has often figured in the programs of the Richter concerts, explaining that his interest in the affair is that Siegfried will bring back the Ring, and that he, Hagen, will presently contrive to possess himself of that Ring and become Plutonic master of the world.