diseuse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French diseuse. First use appears c. 1896 in Cosmopolitan.

Noun

diseuse (plural diseuses)

  1. A female artiste who is a skilled and professional reciter of monologues.
    • 1927, Maurice Baring, Tinker's Leave, page 289:
      Other friends arrived; Bielov played songs, and Zurova, a well known diseuse, sang.

French

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Noun

diseuse f (plural diseuses)

  1. female equivalent of diseur

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