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‖ raconteur|rakɔ̃tœr|
[F., f. raconter to relate: see recount v.1]
One skilled in relating anecdotes or stories.
1828J. C. Young Jrnl. 3 July in Memoir Charles Mayne Young (1871) I. v. 169 Sir Charles is a handsome, thoroughbred gentleman, and a capital raconteur. 1829Disraeli Yng. Duke I. xii. (1831) 97 Stamped the illustrious narrator as the most consummate raconteur. 1855–6Thackeray Four Georges (1861) 183 Scott..the very best raconteur of his time. 1885Manch. Exam. 13 Apr. 5/7 He was a good raconteur. No one knew more good stories or could tell them so well. 1922Joyce Ulysses 604 A gifted man, Mr Bloom said of Mr Dedalus senior, in more respects than one and a born raconteur if ever there was one. 1937Discovery Oct. 326/1 Mrs. Johnson says little about herself, indulges in no purple passages, and without the conscious effort of the raconteur she manages to introduce many good stories and telling anecdotes. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive xv. 296 The inevitable anecdote of a famous raconteur to round off the letter. 1972J. Mosedale Football iii. 35 (caption) Jimmy Conzelman functioned as quarterback, coach, raconteur, songwriter..and promoter.
So raconteuse |-tøz|, a female raconteur.
1863Ouida Held in Bondage (1870) 46 ‘There's not one of you men now-a-days like Selwyn’, began the old raconteuse again. 1892Daily News 2 Aug. 5/1 Let us admit that she is a good raconteuse, for the sake of grammar. |