Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2011/July

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auteur n

A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of their works

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scare quote n

(chiefly in plural) Each of a set of inverted commas or speech marks seen as expressing the author's distance from, or unwillingness to accept, the term enclosed

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