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Artiste

noun
1.
A public performer (a dancer or singer).





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"Artiste" Quotes from Famous Books



... visit was to the artiste Rovinskaya, living, as Tamara had known even before, in the city's most aristocratic hotel—Europe—where she occupied several rooms in a consecutive suite. To obtain an interview with the singer was not very easy: the doorman below said that it looked as if Ellena Victorovna ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... played your role, baroness, like an artiste of consummate talent, and to-morrow I shall have the honor to cancel the debt ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach
... but now forgotten music-hall artiste, and song-writer, issued several collections of the songs of the day. It is from one of these that ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... to get to business. You have kicked up your heels in idleness long enough. I want to make an artiste of you. . . . Do you want to be ...
— The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... more of softness and of lustre than ever belong to hair that is really black,—she wore bound tight round her perfect forehead, with one long love-lock hanging over her shoulder. The form of her head was so good that she could dare to carry it without a chignon, or any adventitious adjuncts from an artiste's shop. Very bitter was she in consequence when speaking of the head-gear of other women. Her chin was perfect in its round, not over long,—as is the case with so many such faces, utterly spoiling the symmetry of ...
— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope
... Eliza Fiddle, and the ageing artiste with her ravaged complexion and her defiant extra-vivacious mien created instantly an impression such as none but herself could have created. The entire assemblage stared, murmuring its excitement, at the renowned creature. Eliza loved the stare and the murmur. She was like a fish dropped ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett


Words linked to "Artiste" :   performing artist, performer


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