raconteuse
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of raconteuse
1860–65; < French, feminine of raconteur raconteur; see -euse
Example Sentences
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If she had a vocation, it was raconteuse: the guest on the late-night TV couch who spouted pithy wit, almost always about her very public private life.
From Time ● Dec. 18, 2016
This spring, Debbie Harry sang at the Café Carlyle, proving herself to be an entertaining chanteuse and raconteuse.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2016
Alix d'Espoli is the Cabala's raconteuse, a Provengal princess living apart from her morose and dissipated husband.
From Time Magazine Archive
To meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs Garnett lay back in her chair with the contented air of a raconteuse who has deftly led up to a dénouement, and her audience gasped in mingled surprise and curiosity.
From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.
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