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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chanteuses
Noun
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His early writing reflected the popular style of the French troubadours, courtly poet-musicians who sang of their longing for a beautiful lady.—
Claudia Roth Pierpont,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025 -
That exquisitely rare skill — the ability to arrange a handful of ordinary notes in a way that makes time stop and pulses quicken — unites long-anonymous troubadours, symphonists, Broadway entertainers, earnest singer-songwriters, griots, and ancient clerics.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
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Yet Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, among others, insisted that Brown, whose archaic-modern style telescopes entire epochs into a few flinty lines, belongs among the major twentieth-century bards.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Chanteuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chanteuses. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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