chanteuse
[shan-toos; French shahn-tœz]
- a female singer, especially one who sings in nightclubs and cabarets.
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Origin of chanteuse
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Related Words for chanteuse
artist, musician, voice, diva, soloist, crooner, vocalist, troubadour, songbird, songster, minstrel, artiste, warbler, chorister, accompanist, chanter, nightingale, chanteuse, intoner, melodistExamples from the Web for chanteuse
Contemporary Examples of chanteuse
Lorde, the 17-year-old New Zealand chanteuse, can apparently do no wrong.
So, it came as a major surprise when the Icelandic chanteuse unleashed a wild attack on a reporter back in 1996.
chanteuse
- a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
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Word Origin for chanteuse
French: singer
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Word Origin and History for chanteuse
"female singer of popular songs," 1888, from French chanteuse (16c.), fem. agent noun of chanter "to sing" (see chant (v.)). In Old French, the word was chanteresse.
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