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(historical,US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
2004 October 27, D. J. R. Bruckner, “New Inflections and Nuance in a Florida Cigar Factory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs.
2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.
2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
How much of Colbert's political satire can be truly grasped by a Hungarian viewer of a lectored episode is slightly beside the point: something gets through.
“lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“lector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"lector", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
lector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.