"female singer of popular songs," 1888, from French chanteuse (16c.), fem. agent noun of chanter "to sing" (see chant (v.)). In Old French, the word was chanteresse.
雙語例句
1. En route, Dan meets chanteuse Lenore Brent, truly his kind of woman.
在旅途中, 丹遇上了女歌手蘭諾拉.布蘭特, 一個(gè)他所喜歡的類型的女人.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
2. She is a famous chanteuse who often sings in the nightclub every Friday night.