| 单词 | artiste |
| 例句 | artiste noun •she was once a cabaret artiste:performer, performing artist, entertainer, singer, dancer, musician | actor, actress, thespian | artist, maestro.WORD NOTE artiste It is, of course, the French word for artist, and that's what it also appears to have meant at one time in English. But it is rarely used anymore to mean a genuine or serious artist, but rather to signify something quite different—that is, someone with artistic pretensions, or even delusions: •The ballroom-dancing instructor in my hometown was a regular artiste. One wonders if the reason for its shift from the descriptive to the derogatory had something to do with its "continental" association, and if a French pronunciation (as opposed to a more plain, down-home American one) was sufficient to lend it the veneer of fakery and ostentation. — FPConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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