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Noun

1. 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."

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actoractressantagonistbad guycharacterfeeder

Example

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French diseuse. First use appears c. 1896 in Cosmopolitan.

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