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Deft storyteller
Answer for the clue "Deft storyteller ", 9 letters:
raconteur
Alternative clues for the word raconteur
- After-dinner speaker perhaps disturbs our trance
- Teller gets changed to run race
- Yarn spinner
- Someone who relates swimming race to run
- Storyteller regularly read books in heart of Paris
- Teller managed closure of East European banking company
- One can relate well to race run poorly
- Storyteller overturned vehicle on new route round base of mountain
- A person skilled in telling anecdotes
Word definitions for raconteur in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"storyteller, person skilled in relating anecdotes," 1828, from French raconteur , from raconter "to recount, tell, narrate," from re- (see re- ) + Old French aconter "to count, render account" (see account (v.); and compare recount (v.1)). Related: Raconteuse ...
Usage examples of raconteur.
Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvarnished tale of the Northland Lochinvar.
This co-existence of serious scientific explorer and witty raconteur made Rhukk a highly popular guest on other chat shows and an interviewee in comnet programs.
Taking upon himself the role of guide and raconteur, outmatching those who lead crocodiles of tourists round the Tower of London and Hampton Court, he capitalized on the quiet of the bus to demonstrate his intimate knowledge of the campaign as fought so far.
William Rotsler, raconteur, cinema director, editor, essayist, writer, photographer, sculptor, cartoonist, humanitarian, bon vivant, lover of women, world traveler, friend to those who have no friends, enemy to those who make him their enemy, known only to his friend and companion Margo Lane as the man to whom belongs the voice of the invisible Shadow.