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diseur

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[dee-zur, dee-zœr] / diˈzɜr, diˈzœr /

noun

  • diseurs
    plural
  1. a male professional entertainer who performs monologues.


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Etymology

Origin of diseur

< French: literally, speaker, Old French, equivalent to dis- (stem of dire < Latin dīcere; see diction) + -eur -eur


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He was, Burke thought, a mere diseur de bons mots.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

He was especially fond of the game of "forfeits"; and so great was his fame as a diseur, that the penalty generally imposed upon him was the reciting of a fable.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

But great diseur as he was, he himself acknowledged that Samson could have given him a lesson.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

Who is there to replace that perilously piquant diseur Harry Fragson?

From Nights in London by Thomas Burke

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