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chanteuse

noun

Definition of chanteuse

as in songstress

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Recent Examples of chanteuse But the French, bless 'em, have been driving that particular bandwagon for years, and Monroe fits snugly into their longstanding Eurovision tradition of la belle chanteuse with a little something extra in le tanque. — Glen Weldon, NPR, 14 May 2026 Claudine Longet, the French-American chanteuse whose first fame in music, on TV and as the wife of singing star Andy Williams was dwarfed by infamy after her fatal shooting of the Olympic skier Spider Sabich in 1976, has died. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 14 May 2026 Attendees of last year’s competition claimed that boos directed toward Israel’s chanteuse were drowned out by sound technicians. — Steven Blum, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 At the same time, there’s a harplike, Vangelis-adjacent melody and some cybernetic singing from arty chanteuse Zola Jesus. — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for chanteuse

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Breathless coverage has poured in over the slow news week leading up to the July Fourth holiday, when billionaire songstress Swift will wed Kansas City tight end Kelce and close her long and fruitful era as a single woman.

— Marc Malkin, Variety, 2 July 2026
But the global fame that Back to Black brought the London songstress only seemed to exacerbate her issues with addiction, and broadcast them to the world via a cruelly unsympathetic tabloid media ecosystem.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2026

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On the surface, the latest album from Texas troubadour Kacey Musgraves muses about rediscovering a center of gravity after the end of a relationship and acclimating to long-term dry spells interspersed with low-stakes hookups.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 July 2026
Stroll around the Artist Quarter, where troubadours serenade passersby in the evenings.

— Zanny Merullo, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026

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