raconteur
Example Sentences
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“He’s a great raconteur and so the rest of the world just vanished,” Seymour told Times columnist Lynell George in 1997.
From Los Angeles Times
Ever the raconteur, Madonna balked: “I don’t know, how much longer can you go on doing what you’re doing? Don’t limit me.”
From Salon
Mr. Man is knowledgeable and well-traveled, but as a historian he is more of a raconteur than a scholar.
All seem to use the word differently than in its usual application to novelists, playwrights and raconteurs.
Like the raconteur at the table, Mr. Winchester is masterly but almost too fluent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
