A man who sings in a choir; a ‘singing man.’
1488. Will of Stalworth (Somerset Ho.). A preest of goode name … & a goode quereman.
1502. Bury Wills (1850), 95. I wyll that an honest prest and a queerman shall syng for my soule.
1570. B. Googe, Pop. Kingd., II. (1880), 16. Some others … sing, whom Quier men they call.
1611. Cotgr., Chorieux, Queeremen, singingmen, quirresters.
1766. Entick, London, IV. 109. Choirmen, to sing mass daily.
1888. S. H. Little, in Dublin Rev., Jan., 106. No choirman, therefor, should be able to consider himself a necessity to the choir.
