romancer

From Old French romanceour. By surface analysis, romance +‎ -er.

romancer (plural romancers)

1. One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
   • 1977, “The Stranger”, in Billy Joel (music), The Stranger:

     Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.

2. (dated) A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 26:

     [W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.

romance +‎ -er (“Variety -er”)

romancer (plural romancers)

1. (entertainment industry) A romantic film or television show.
   • 1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1:

     Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.

• Cranmore

From romanç +‎ -er.

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romancer (feminine romancera, masculine plural romancers, feminine plural romanceres)

1. (relational) romance (literary work, either verse or prose)
2. (colloquial, derogatory) smooth-talking

romancer m (plural romancers)

1. the body of poetic romances from the early modern period of Iberian literature

romancer m (plural romancers, feminine romancera)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) smooth-talker
2. jongleur

   Synonym: joglar

• “romancer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old French romancier (“to narrate in the vernacular”), from romanz.

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romancer

1. (transitive) to romanticize, fictionalize

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

• “romancer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.