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n. A skilled public performer or entertainer, especially a singer or dancer.

n. A person with artistic pretensions.

n. a public performer, especially of song or dance

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

n. One who is peculiarly dexterous or skilful in the practice of some art not one of the fine arts; one who makes an art of his employment, as a dancer, a hair-dresser, or a cook: same as artist, 2 and 4.

n. a public performer (a dancer or singer)

"It could not be that the grand role of the artiste is a desperately self-delusional shell around the soft and gooey centre of a very small and weak ego, all too easily hurt by even the mildest and most unconcerned critique."

performer    performing artist   

artist   

composee    chantoose    instrumentalist    marksman    lage