regisseurn.
/ˌreɪʒɪˈsəː/, U.S. /ˌreɪdʒɪˈsər/ 1. Chiefly in French-speaking contexts: a manager or supervisor, esp. of a vineyard or large estate.
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1778 T. Blaikie Diary 15 Sept. (1931) 149 Arrived at Manicamp, found Mr. Fauconnier who ocupys this place as Regesseure.
1831 Anti-slavery Reporter 20 Aug. 408 They [sc. the slaves]..are continually struck and annoyed by the régisseur with a ‘martinet en peau’.
1869 W. J. Flagg Three Seasons in European Vineyards 54 On my asking the regisseur how long he allowed the wine to remain in the vat, he told me the period varied.
1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 100/1 The régisseur had the reputation of being the surliest man in Burgundy.
1908 M. K. Waddington Chateau & Country Life in France ii. 58 She managed the property extremely well, made the tour of the house, woods and garden every day with her ‘régisseur’.
1976 Times Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 11/3 The maître de chai, régisseur and several of the Lafite staff all opted for Cos d'Estournel as the claret they would drink if they could not have Lafite.
2004 C. Coates Wines of Bordeaux 50 The owner..was a notable vigneron and became régisseur of a number of important Médoc growths.
2. Ballet and Theatre. Chiefly in or with reference to Continental Europe: a stage manager or artistic director.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > stage manager
stage director1782
stage-manager1805
regisseur1828
stage-manageress1900
1828 J. Ebers Seven Years King's Theatre ii. 58 He had been a kind of manager of the Opera at Bologna, and subsequently Regisseur of the Théâtre Italien at Paris.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Let. 4–6 Sept. (1945) II. 589 I said to the regisseur of the theatre Lead on, and we went through passages & up to the loge.
1887 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 9 Mar. 1/8 The names of Hock, Regisseur and Theodore Thomas conductor, insure the perfection of the performance.
1935 A. Revusky Jews in Palestine x. 173 Piscator, the leading theatrical regisseur of Germany.
1954 ‘E. Box’ Death in Fifth Position i. 10 I was introduced to..the regisseur or director of the [ballet] company.
1965 New Statesman 16 Apr. 621/2 Shaw, Chekhov and Brecht wrote for a producers' theatre, intervening when necessary as their own régisseurs to bully their actors into subordination to their texts.
1989 Dance Nov. 47/2 He brought in former New York City Ballet soloist Elyse Borne as ballet mistress and regisseur.
2006 Chap Autumn 17/2 When this burly cove isn't larking about on Mount Everest, he is hired to bellow his Shakespearean baritone for Hollywood regisseurs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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