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
Noun Inflected Forms
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
"Certainly!" rapped out the jeune premier, with a contemptuous gesture.
From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
In despite of myself, I can see clearly my future position of jeune premier in this opera of the wilderness.
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
Towards evening the jeune premier, Brama-Glinsky, ran in to see Shtchiptsov.
From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
I do not mean that it is a novel without a jeune premier, a young man to make love; Pickwick is that and Oliver Twist, and, perhaps, The Old Curiosity Shop.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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