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English
Noun
comédienne (plural comédiennes)
- Alternative form of comedienne.
1899 February, “Flashes from the Footlights”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume XX, number 185, London: Ingram Brothers , page 639, column 1:Annie Hughes, one of our very few comédiennes, has, happily for Londoners, been playing again in town (in “The Brixton Burglary.”)
1909, H[obart] C[hatfield] Chatfield-Taylor, “Honest Laughter”, in Fame’s Pathway: A Romance of a Genius, New York, N.Y.: Duffield & Company, book 2, page 118:This lady is Mademoiselle Béjart, famed as a comédienne from Languedoc to Brittany.
1932, “The Theatre: Minority Report”, in The New Yorker, volume 8, New York, N.Y., page 26, column 3:But during the first two acts, while she was indulging herself in comedy imitations which included everybody from Beatrice Lillie to Chic Sale, I could detect very little difference between her performance and that of several other tall English actresses who have visited us in the past few years (of whom I can remember only Lilian Braithwaite at the moment) and either deliberately mugg and run scales for the benefit of what is supposed to be the broader taste of the Colonies, or are just out-and-out bad comédiennes.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
comédienne f (plural comédiennes)
- female equivalent of comédien; actress
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