Discaire

Quick meaning: Discaire is a noun meaning (dance, music) Alternative spelling of disquaire (“disc jockey”).

Meaning

(dance, music) Alternative spelling of disquaire (“disc jockey”).

Example Sentences

The DJ booth was built in a glass elevator so the discaires could play for four different dancefloors at once, gliding from one to another as they selected their tunes.

A third, a discaire, also died; "That's absolutely the last disco funeral I'll ever attend," my friend reported. "You do know, don't you, that they played all his greatest tapes at the funeral."

[I]n the winter he used to go out dancing at five in the morning, and why? Because then the crowd had gone, the discaire was no longer playing for them, but for his friends, and that was the best dancing.

There was no one word to describe the variegated music we spent the night with. It was distinct enough for the discaire to begin a set quietly, build gradually to a climax, then let you down to start all over again. Do you remember that vanished custom?

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disco, diskery, avant-disco, disk, disco dancing, danceable.

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