chanteuse

Borrowed from French chanteuse (“female singer”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɒnˈtɜːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃɑnˈtuːz/

chanteuse (plural chanteuses)

1. A female singer; often specifically a popular or cabaret singer.
   • 2006 September 7, Evan Serpick, “10 artists to watch 2006: The Noisettes, Jibbs, Silversun Pickups and seven other up-and-comers”, in Rolling Stone‎, archived from the original on 28 August 2009:

     Smith could easily be lumped in with expressive chanteuses like Norah Jones and Alicia Keys, but she has a broader palette than either. On the soulful torch song "Dream," which Smith wrote, she conveys a sophisticated allure that would seem well beyond her twenty-seven years.

• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:chanteuse.

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• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃.tøz/

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chanteuse

1. feminine singular of chanteur

chanteuse f (plural chanteuses)

1. A (female) singer.

• chanter
• chanteur

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