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raconteuses

raconteuses is the plural of raconteuse.

Meaning of raconteuse

Noun

raconteuse (plural raconteuses)

  1. A female storyteller.
    • 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...1978, William Peter Archibald, Social psychology as political economy, page 229

Questions about raconteuses

What is raconteuses the plural of?
Raconteuses is the plural of raconteuse.

Words near raconteuses in the dictionary

  1. raconteured
  2. raconteurial
  3. raconteuring
  4. raconteurs
  5. raconteuse
  6. raconteuses
  7. racoon
  8. racoons
  9. racotumomab
  10. Racouchot
  11. Racova

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