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out-choruses

out-choruses is the plural of out-chorus.

Meaning of out-chorus

Noun

out-chorus (plural out-choruses)

  1. (jazz) The return to the main written melody following the chorus (improvised solo section) in a small group performance
    • I also hear the trombone's held-notes in the out-chorus (B⁷) as evocative "shouts" that Signify black religious shouting and its counterpart expression in secular life—calls, cries, and hollers […]1991, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., "Ring Shout! Literary Studies, Historical Studies, and Black Music Inquiry" in Gena Dagel Caponi (ed.), Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin’, & Slam Dunking: A Reader in African...
    Synonyms:
    head-out

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Questions about out-choruses

What is out-choruses the plural of?
Out-choruses is the plural of out-chorus.

Words near out-choruses in the dictionary

  1. out-Byzantine
  2. out-Byzantined
  3. out-Byzantines
  4. out-Byzantining
  5. out-chorus
  6. out-choruses
  7. out-Christian
  8. out-Christianed
  9. out-Christianing
  10. out-Christians
  11. out-clearing

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