artiste
pronunciation
How to pronounce artiste in British English:
UK [ɑ:ˈti:st]
How to pronounce artiste in American English:
US [ɑrˈtist]
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- Noun:
- a public performer (a dancer or singer)
Word Origin
- artiste (n.)
- 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. Artiste: 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]
Example
- 1. He is a prolific artiste who has appeared in more than 350 films .
- 2. Local artiste , patricia is a living example of this strategy .
- 3. Wu zun : I never expected to become an artiste so I didn 't like either much .
- 4. She is a hardworking artiste , yet a most sincere and unpretentious girl .
- 5. Singapore artiste jj lin has been appointed the new tourism ambassador to greater china .