chansonnier

Borrowed from French chansonnier.

chansonnier (plural chansonniers)

1. A book which contains a collection of chansons.
2. A singer of chansons.
   • 2009 April 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Is That in Your Job Description, Maestro?”, in New York Times‎:

     Not only that, H K Gruber, the Austrian composer, conductor and self-described chansonnier who was to perform the vocal solo of his own work, “Frankenstein!!,” the major work on the program, never made it.

chanson +‎ -ier

chansonnier m (plural chansonniers)

1. songbook, chansonnier

chansonnier m (plural chansonniers, feminine chansonnière)

1. singer, chansonnier

• “chansonnier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• encharnions