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Artiste

noun

A public performer (a dancer or singer).

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"Artiste" Quotes from Famous Books

... over his spectacles with tearful eyes and nodded several times with a world of sadness. "She has had an education—tres-superieure! Nothing was spared. Lessons in pastel at ten francs the lesson, lessons in oil at twelve francs. I didn't look at the francs then. She's an artiste, ah!" ...

— The American • Henry James

... at her. Intuitively she apprehended the mental conflict through which her friend was passing—the nervous apprehension and resentment of the artiste that any extraneous happening should infringe upon her success contending with the genuine regret she would feel if some untoward accident had really befallen Kit Raynham. And behind both these that strange, aloof detachment which seemed part of the very fibre of her ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... like that!—sane people!" he said. "Why, to me the whole joy is in the living personality, the curious personality of the artiste. That's ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... A benevolent man, but who does good only to people who are religious and honest and right-minded—as he says. As I am an artiste, the Sister was afraid that he would not trouble himself about me, but he saw plainly that I ...

— The Grip of Desire • Hector France

... 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 ...

— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett

Words linked to "Artiste" : performing artist, performer