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‖ jeune premier|ʒœn prəmje|
[Fr., lit. ‘first young man’.]
An actor who plays the part of the principal lover or young hero. So jeune première |prəmjɛr|, the performer of the corresponding female part.
1852Blackw. Mag. Nov. 600/2 The prima donna and jeune premiere of the troop. 1877Sat. Rev. 24 Nov. 662/2 What the jeune premier would necessarily be when acting the part of a ruined country gentleman. 1888Athenæum 3 Nov. 588/2 Theology always plays a part, albeit in the form of the jeune premier, the handsome curate with Broad Church instead of agnostic views. 1896Mrs. H. Ward Sir G. Tressady xiii. 283 Ancoats always seems to me the jeune premier in his own play. 1902Sat. Rev. 13 Sept. 329/2 [He] plays him with no more intelligence than would suffice for the part of a quite ordinary jeune premier. 1924‘R. Crompton’ William—the Fourth iv. 71 William..has eloped with a jeune première and a bear-skin. An entire Christmas pantomime is searching the village for him. 1946Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Let. 1 Jan. (1971) 269 Lord Rosebery..was the jeune premier of that generation. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive xv. 272 Mountolive was now irradiated by an appalling sense of futility as he sat (like some ageing jeune premier) and listened to the torrent of Nur's excuses. 1960Guardian 20 May 8/4 He..became a highly successful jeune premier in light comedy and revue. |