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chantwells

chantwells is the plural 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

Questions about chantwells

What is chantwells the plural of?
Chantwells is the plural of chantwell.

Words near chantwells in the dictionary

  1. chantry
  2. chants
  3. chantuelle
  4. chantuelles
  5. chantwell
  6. chantwells
  7. chanty
  8. chantyman
  9. chantymen
  10. Chanuca
  11. Chanucca

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