diseuse

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noun

A female artiste who is a skilled and professional reciter of monologues.

OriginFrench diseuse →
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Meanings

noundiseuse (plural diseuses)

plural diseuses

  1. A female artiste who is a skilled and professional reciter of monologues.

    Other friends arrived; Bielov played songs, and Zurova, a well known diseuse, sang.

    1927, Maurice Baring, Tinker's Leave, page 289

Origin

  1. Frenchdiseuse
  2. Englishdiseuse

Borrowed from French diseuse. First attested in c. 1896 in Cosmopolitan.

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APA

diseuse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diseuse

MLA

“diseuse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diseuse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “diseuse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/diseuse.

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