chanteuse
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 edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
chanteuse
Noun edit
chanteuse f (plural chanteuses)
- female equivalent of chanteur
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “chanteuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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