"quirister" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Musicians",
          "orig": "en:Musicians",
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            "Occupations",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "People",
            "Work",
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        {
          "ref": "1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:",
          "text": "Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,\nThose Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 110:",
          "text": "'You are a tweake, aren't you, Nantwich?' said Morgan, a fat, ugly, Welsh quirister, reviled by the others but being allowed, too, into the menacing conpiracy against me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of chorister"
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          "word": "quirrister"
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  "word": "quirister"
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          "ref": "1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:",
          "text": "Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,\nThose Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 110:",
          "text": "'You are a tweake, aren't you, Nantwich?' said Morgan, a fat, ugly, Welsh quirister, reviled by the others but being allowed, too, into the menacing conpiracy against me.",
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      "word": "quirrister"
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  "word": "quirister"
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