"chorusless" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From chorus + -less.",
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      "expansion": "chorusless (not comparable)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899, Henry Washington Prescott, Selected Offprints - Volume 1, page 411:",
          "text": "And not only the relative coherence of mythological plot, but the absence of a chorus from the plays of Epicharmus, so far as the fragments negatively attest, provide the requisite background for both the chorusless Hellenistic type and for an intermediate form in which a chorus, relatively inactive, perhaps appeared with an entrance song, but denied itself parabasis and regularly recurring chorika mele, as Platonius seems to assert and as the present text of the Plutus may serve to illustrate.",
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          "ref": "1995, Kevin Mitchell, Essential Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary: Handy Guide, →ISBN, page 18:",
          "text": "Or you may say \"this is all so bad, but I like the idea of the second verse...\" and be able to make it into the chorus of a song that has at this point been chorusless.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare Survey - Volume 31, →ISBN, page 95:",
          "text": "Hence, the chorusless 1600 Quarto publication may be taken as approximating the public play-house form of the play, while the Folio text relates to the court version of the play, regardless of which of the two versions is regarded as taking precedence in point of time over the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Denny Martin Flinn, Little Musicals for Little Theatres, →ISBN, page 132:",
          "text": "The production was woefully inadequate, either because it should have been a big Hello, Dolly! type musical, or a chorusless, more intimate one (but that would have done me out of a job).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Naomi A. Weiss, The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Hecuba has no such musical or aesthetic consolation, since all that remains for her is to “cry out chorusless woes.”",
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        "Without a chorus."
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  "word": "chorusless"
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  "etymology_text": "From chorus + -less.",
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          "ref": "1899, Henry Washington Prescott, Selected Offprints - Volume 1, page 411:",
          "text": "And not only the relative coherence of mythological plot, but the absence of a chorus from the plays of Epicharmus, so far as the fragments negatively attest, provide the requisite background for both the chorusless Hellenistic type and for an intermediate form in which a chorus, relatively inactive, perhaps appeared with an entrance song, but denied itself parabasis and regularly recurring chorika mele, as Platonius seems to assert and as the present text of the Plutus may serve to illustrate.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Kevin Mitchell, Essential Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary: Handy Guide, →ISBN, page 18:",
          "text": "Or you may say \"this is all so bad, but I like the idea of the second verse...\" and be able to make it into the chorus of a song that has at this point been chorusless.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare Survey - Volume 31, →ISBN, page 95:",
          "text": "Hence, the chorusless 1600 Quarto publication may be taken as approximating the public play-house form of the play, while the Folio text relates to the court version of the play, regardless of which of the two versions is regarded as taking precedence in point of time over the other.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Denny Martin Flinn, Little Musicals for Little Theatres, →ISBN, page 132:",
          "text": "The production was woefully inadequate, either because it should have been a big Hello, Dolly! type musical, or a chorusless, more intimate one (but that would have done me out of a job).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Naomi A. Weiss, The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Hecuba has no such musical or aesthetic consolation, since all that remains for her is to “cry out chorusless woes.”",
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