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raconteuse

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Borrowed from French raconteuse.

noun raconteuses

A female storyteller. There is a fascinating passage in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing where four Canadians on their way up a river in the wilderness come upon a heron someone preceding them has killed and strung from a tree. Having surveyed its disgusting remains, the raconteuse asks herself "Why had they strung it up like

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"raconteuse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/raconteuse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{raconteuse_2026,
  title = {raconteuse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/raconteuse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}