chanteuse
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French chanteuse (“female singer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ʃɒnˈtɜːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ʃɑnˈtuːz/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -ɜːz, (US) -uːz
Noun
[edit]chanteuse (plural chanteuses)
- A female singer; often specifically a popular or cabaret singer.
- 2006 September 7, Evan Serpick, “10 artists to watch 2006: The Noisettes, Jibbs, Silversun Pickups and seven other up-and-comers”, in Rolling Stone[1], archived from the original on 28 August 2009:
- Smith could easily be lumped in with expressive chanteuses like Norah Jones and Alicia Keys, but she has a broader palette than either. On the soulful torch song "Dream," which Smith wrote, she conveys a sophisticated allure that would seem well beyond her twenty-seven years.
Quotations
[edit]- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chanteuse.
Synonyms
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[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chanteuse
Noun
[edit]chanteuse f (plural chanteuses, masculine chanteur)
- female singer, songstress
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “chanteuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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