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To: kiriath_jearim
has since found a new audience as a sophisticated chanteuse.

My french is sufficiently bad that I have no clue what this means.

7 posted on 09/14/2006 2:19:07 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

chanteuse
One entry found for chanteuse.


Main Entry: chan·teuse
Pronunciation: shan-'tüz, shän-'t&(r)z
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural chan·teuses /-'tüz, -'tü-z&z, -'t&(r)z, -'t&(r)-z&z/
Etymology: French, feminine of chanteur singer, from chanter
: SONGSTRESS; especially : a woman who is a concert or nightclub singer


10 posted on 09/14/2006 2:22:55 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Dog Gone

It means she is a female singer. We knew that even before they dropped the French word on us.


14 posted on 09/14/2006 2:32:36 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Dog Gone
has since found a new audience as a sophisticated chanteuse.

On the bright side, at least you knew it was French.

34 posted on 09/14/2006 5:13:17 PM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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