speakerine
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French speakerine;[1] equivalent to speaker + -ine.
Noun
[edit]speakerine (plural speakerines)
- (dated) A female speaker. [from 1957][1]
- 1990, Seymour Benjamin Chatman, Coming to Terms:
- That Laborit is self-consciously in the discourse is amusingly emphasized by the fact that he, unlike the fictional characters, can hear what the speakerine says about him.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “speakerine, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]speakerine f (plural speakerines)
- female newscaster, television anchor [from 1941][1]
- Synonym: présentatrice
- La première speakerine de la télévision française est Suzy Wincker en 1935.
- The first announcer to appear on French television was Suzy Wincker in 1935.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: speakerine
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “speakerine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- “speakerine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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