artiste
- an artist, especially an actor, singer, dancer, or other public performer.
Origin of artiste
Related Words for artiste
connoisseur, guru, doctor, authority, genius, scientist, professional, artist, inventor, artisan, composer, painter, expert, conductor, virtuoso, player, entertainer, performer, soloist, instrumentalistExamples from the Web for artiste
Contemporary Examples of artiste
After seeing Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova perform in Cairo, Iolas knew he wanted to be an artiste.
He hated actually dealing with business matters, preferring to play the role of the likable artiste.
She's the season's pleasant surprise—Hollywood's favorite sexy-tomboy turned serious artiste.
Historical Examples of artiste
An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
I was willing to humour the poor fellow, who must have been as poor a manager as he had been an artiste.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
He frequently spoke in verse when he wished to reprimand an artiste.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
The Queens threw their bouquets to the French artiste, amidst applause.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
To the daughters of my master I give the artiste's name—why not?
The House Under the SeaSir Max Pemberton
artiste
- an entertainer, such as a singer or dancer
- a person who is highly skilled in some occupationa hair artiste
Word Origin and History for artiste
1819 in English, from 1804 as a French word, from French artiste; a reborrowing of artist, at first in a foreign context, later used to fill the gap after the sense of artist had become limited toward the visual arts and especially painting.
Artiste: an admirable word (albeit somewhat Frenchified) of late applied, with nice discrimination, to every species of exhibitor, from a rope-dancer down to a mere painter or sculptor. On looking into little Entick (my great authority in these matters), I find we have already the word artist; but with stupid English perversity, we have hitherto used that in a much more restricted sense than its newly-imported rival, which it is becoming the excellent fashion to adopt. ["Paul Pry's Journal of a Residence at Little-Pedlington," Philadelphia, 1836]