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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chanteuse

"female singer of popular songs," 1888, from French chanteuse (16c.), fem. agent noun of chanter "to sing" (see chant (v.)). In Old French, the word was chanteresse.

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chanteuse

n. A female singer; often specifically a popular or cabaret singer

Usage examples of "chanteuse".

The most celebrated companies of the old and the new world play there amid an enthusiasm that is steadily maintained by the foresight of the managers: Russian and foreign dancers, and above all the French chanteuses, the little dolls of the cafes-concerts, so long as they are young, bright, and elegantly dressed, may meet their fortune there.

We have Madame Ellie Morte, tragedian and chanteuse, who has performed before many of the great barons of Deathlands.

There was always music in the supply room, for Fender was allowed to play records of the French chanteuse, Edith Piaf, all day long.

Banti had been discovered as a chanteuse in a Paris cafe, and afterwards attracted much notice by her fine voice both in Paris and London.

However, the management is appreciative if they accept the invitation of some dignitary of the army, of administration, or of finance, who seeks the honor of hearing from the chanteuse, in a private room and with a company of friends not disposed to melancholy, the Bohemian songs of the Vieux Derevnia.