diseur

He has the most confused mind, alembicated, what our ancestors called a diseur de phébus, and he makes the things that he says even more unpleasant by the manner in which he says them.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Clarke's film followed, and is comparable in that Jason is a very grand diseur like

10/25: Portrait of Jason; Brakhage shorts Ed Howard 2007

Who is there to replace that perilously piquant _diseur_ Harry Fragson?

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

But at the date of the "Cross Readings" he was mainly what Burke, speaking contemptuously of his status as a plenipotentiary, styled a "_diseur de bons mots_"; and he was for this reason included among those "most distinguished Wits of the Metropolis," who, following Garrick's lead in 1774, diverted themselves at the St. James's Coffee-house by composing the epitaphs on Goldsmith which gave rise to the incomparable gallery entitled _Retaliation_.

De Libris: Prose and Verse Austin Dobson 1880

I am no _talker (diseur), _ but I beg you to believe that, if it were not for this business in which perhaps I may be required, I would go into retirement as you have gone, and I give you my word that, if I come back,

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830

National Liar, Premier Minister of the Province, and First Juggler of its finances: -- a profligate in public in the name of the Church -- in secret in the name of Free-Thought -- _beau diseur_ -- demagogue of the rabble and chieftain of the Cave. "

The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

‘Even this,’ he continued, raising his voice and adopting the throaty murmur of the fashionable diseur, ‘even this would not be in itself of interest.

Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933

‘Even this,’ he continued, raising his voice and adopting the throaty murmur of the fashionable diseur, ‘even this would not be in itself of interest.

Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933