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- noun Someone who
retells a story.
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Examples
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These details offer a great deal of scope to the reteller.
Arthurian Glories Renewed Tom Shippey 2011
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Your friend and this other Star Wars reteller have the same hair.
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) on Vimeo 2010
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Handke would say that they weren't his either: he sees himself as a reteller, not a storyteller.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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Handke would say that they weren't his either: he sees himself as a reteller, not a storyteller.
The Necessity of Influence: A Conversation with Damion Searls (Part I, Fiction) Omnivoracious 2009
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Sadly, "dyte" in this context is merely an abbreviated form of the name Dictys Cretensis, a lesser reteller of the Trojan War.
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The reteller of these stories needs in addition to plead guilty of having abridged the tales with a free hand.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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_And for the rest, since good wine needs no hush, and an inferior beverage is not likely to be bettered by arboreal adornment, the reteller of these tales prefers to piece out his exordium (however lamely) with_ "THE PRINTER'S PREFACE."
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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_The reteller of these stories needs in addition to plead guilty of having abridged the tales with a free hand.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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The genius of Wagner as a musician has so far overshadowed all else, that his genius as a poet and as an exquisite reteller of the old legends has not been fully appreciated.
Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation Oliver Huckel 1902
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He was not an impartial, objective reteller of events.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local californicated1 2010
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