jeune premier
Americannoun
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jeunes premiers
plural
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the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
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a young actor who plays such a role.
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of jeune premier
1850–55; < French: literally, young first (actor)
Example Sentences
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As the stern father, he is all jutting chin and squints and false heartiness; he frets and preens like the jeune premier in a Feydeau farce.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marcel Provost: "Le jeune premier des romans de Georges Ohnet," which isn't bad.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
Ancoats always seems to me the jeune premier in his own play.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Mrs. Humphry Ward
"I must go home!" the jeune premier heard.
From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
I was particularly told not to try to be broadly funny, but to undertake the light and graceful business, like a jeune premier.
From Social Pictorial Satire by George Du Maurier
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