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chantuelle

chantuelle is the alternative form of chantwell.

Meaning of chantwell

Noun

chantwell (plural chantwells)

  1. (Trinidad-and-Tobago) A (generally female) lead singer of traditional cariso music, or of a calypso band.
    • The weird, off-beat music known as "calypso" is played in all the English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, but the place to hear it at its best is in Trinidad, where it originated. Every year the calypso singers, or "chantwells," as they are called, hold a "war" to decide the championship. The...1952, The American Magazine, volume 154, New York, N.Y.: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 97, column 1

Forms of chantuelle

pluralchantuelles

Questions about chantuelle

What is chantuelle the alternative form of?
Chantuelle is the alternative form of chantwell.

Words near chantuelle in the dictionary

  1. Chantrey
  2. chantries
  3. chantriolide
  4. chantry
  5. chants
  6. chantuelle
  7. chantuelles
  8. chantwell
  9. chantwells
  10. chanty
  11. chantyman

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