Meaning of raconteuse | Babel Free

Definitions

A female storyteller.

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Examples

“There is a fascinating passage in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing where four Canadians on their way up a river in the wilderness come⟳ upon a heron someone preceding them has killed and strung from a tree. Having surveyed its disgusting remains, the raconteuse asks herself "Why had they strung it up like⟳ a lynch victim, why didn't they just throw⟳ it away like⟳ the trash?"”

“Tom's mother was a superb raconteuse with the enviable gift of painting a verbal canvas of enchanting colours, transporting her audience into a realm of her own⟳ making that invariably enhanced the core of the tale.”

“So, Shasta had reflected at once, Aunt Lily, by acclamation the family raconteuse, had certainly piqued her concern⟳ and puzzlement, if not exactly her surprise⟳.”

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