Usually means: Singer in a cathedral choir.
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  1. lay clerk: Merriam-Webster
  2. lay clerk: Wordnik
  3. Lay clerk, lay clerk: Dictionary.com
  4. Lay clerk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. lay-clerk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  6. lay clerk: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Lay clerk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. lay clerk: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  (UK) A professional, adult singer in a church or university choir.

Similar:
quirister, filing clerk, sales clerk, singer, lector, cleffer, mail clerk, leavelooker, amen curler, folker, more...

Opposite:
canon, prebendary, clergyman

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Similar:
quirister, filing clerk, sales clerk, singer, lector, cleffer, mail clerk, leavelooker, amen curler, folker, more...

Opposite:
canon, prebendary, clergyman



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