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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
artiste
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A programme of suitable artistes has been arranged.
▪ And in turn, their fashion photography somehow seems elevated, more substantial because it was created by bona fide artistes.
▪ He recalled the names of the artistes quite easily and the telephone number had also stayed in his mind.
▪ Many artistes got drunk before they faced the ordeal on stage.
▪ Mr Clinton's only crime so far is to have been accused by an ageing cabaret artiste of infidelity.
▪ Now I am the artiste, Suzanne Valadon!
▪ The services of certain artistes have already been booked and the chairman will contact others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Artiste

Artiste \Ar*tiste"\, n. [F. See Artist.] One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

Note: This term should not be confounded with the English word artist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
artiste

1819 in English, from 1804 as a French word, from French artiste; a reborrowing of artist, at first in a foreign context, later used to fill the gap after the sense of artist had become limited toward the visual arts and especially painting.\n\nArtiste: an admirable word (albeit somewhat Frenchified) of late applied, with nice discrimination, to every species of exhibitor, from a rope-dancer down to a mere painter or sculptor. On looking into little Entick (my great authority in these matters), I find we have already the word artist; but with stupid English perversity, we have hitherto used that in a much more restricted sense than its newly-imported rival, which it is becoming the excellent fashion to adopt. ["Paul Pry's Journal of a Residence at Little-Pedlington," Philadelphia, 1836]

Wiktionary
artiste

n. a public performer, especially of song or dance

WordNet
artiste

n. a public performer (a dancer or singer)

Usage examples of "artiste".

The horse knows that, and so does the artiste, and so does the band of musicians, if there is a band.

Florian cried, and clapped Yount heartily on the shoulder, then ran to the ring to introduce the next artiste, Colonel Ramrod.

And an artiste wants her work or his work displayed to best advantage.

Servants now came from the carriages, their arms laden, and the king himself presented every female artiste with a huge bouquet of hothouse carnations and a fine, fringed silk shawl embroidered with a crown.

I may not be an artiste any more, but all I have to do is move across the pitch to the sideshow tent and.

Sir John is pleased to have a real artiste in his sideshow, not just another exhibit.

Even toward the end of the night performance, no artiste let himself or herself look anything but sparkling and vivacious to the audience, and none of them bungled a single trick in any act.

I must say that I myself am not overjoyed at the prospect of my tightrope artiste being out of action for several months.

And three days more of following the Seine will bring us to the bourn dreamed of by every circus artiste on earth.

Nevertheless, she was once more the artiste most frenziedly applauded, called back for encores, and the only one deluged with flowers.

Katalin-Cricket-Grillon was the recipient of almost as many bouquets and candy boxes and messages as was the star artiste, Clover Lee.

Gaspard often boasted to us that he had wed a beautiful circus artiste, but we never quite believed him.

Unless I am overruled, I say we continue to show as long as we have a single artiste capable of performing, and a single josser paying admission to see that performance.

Florilegium would go on showing here as long as we had a single artiste capable of performing.

Should I deny the animal a share of that admiration all artistes yearn for and revel in?