Definition of Artiste

1. Noun. A public performer (a dancer or singer).

Generic synonyms: Performer, Performing Artist

Definition of Artiste

1. n. One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

Definition of Artiste

1. Noun. a public performer, especially of song or dance ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Artiste

1. a skilled public performer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Artiste

artiodactylous
artiodactyls
artis
artisan
artisan's lien
artisanal
artisanally
artisans
artisanship
artisanships
artist
artist's loft
artist's model
artist's proof
artist's workroom
artiste (current term)
artistes
artistic
artistic anatomy
artistic creation
artistic licence
artistic license
artistic movement
artistic production
artistic revolution
artistic style
artistical
artistically
artistries
artistry

Literary usage of Artiste

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1878)
"Si donc l'artiste anonyme a, dès cette époque, exécuté dans une église chrétienne un bus-relief représentant les mœurs et les costumes de pays situés au ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... she has won at once a high reputa- tion as a finished artiste. With an expressive and handsome countenance, finely- moulded limbs, and such richness of ..."

3. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts by James Barr Ames, Jeremiah Smith (1893)
"The third count differs, in stating expressly that the per- xl*_«fct«-/^" *^' former had agreed to perform as the dramatic artiste of the plain- j A. tiff, ..."

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