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first chair
noun
The premier of several musicians playing a particular instrument in an orchestra: seated closest to the audience, taking the lead for that instrument's movements, and playing any solos.
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"She was first chair.
First chair outside is the star.
You should totally be first chair.
(He and Scott St. John alternate in the first chair).
The first chair of Greek was set up in Florence.
Halle itself established the first chair of educational theory.
Wherever he is, Shelly is first chair today.
We had the first chair of musicology and the first chair of American history.
"I was first chair in junior high," she said.
The first chair was the Weissman chair in chemical ecology.
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