raconteur
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French raconteur.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɹæk.ɒnˈtəː/, /ˌɹæk.ɔ̃(n)ˈtəː/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌɹæk.ɑnˈtɝ/, /ˌɹæk.ɔ̃(n)ˈtɝ/
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Noun
[edit]raconteur (plural raconteurs)
- A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
- 1888, Henry James, The Liar:
- He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most mystifying figure in the house.
- 1905, W. G. Aston, chapter 5, in Shinto: The Way of the Gods, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 79:
- It is notoriously possible for the author of a fictitious narrative to become, after a time, unable to distinguish it from a statement of actual facts. There is a case on record in which a learned judge communicated to the Psychical Society in perfect good faith a ghost story, all the principal features of which were proved to be imaginary. They had their origin in his own talent as a distinguished raconteur.
Translations
[edit]storyteller
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Verb
[edit]raconteur (third-person singular simple present raconteurs, present participle raconteuring, simple past and past participle raconteured)
- To make witty remarks or stories.
- 2003, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White[1], →ISBN, page 155:
- The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring.
Translations
[edit]To make witty remarks or stories
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]raconteur m (plural raconteurs, feminine raconteuse)
Further reading
[edit]- “raconteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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