raconteur
Example Sentences
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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.
But Capote, a lively raconteur in life and on the page, takes his time in setting the scene.
It is something he observed in his wife’s grandfather, a lifelong reader and raconteur who retained his gentle voice and erudite air long after the stories in him were lost to Alzheimer’s disease.
“But the other thing is that he’s a born raconteur.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
