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Some parts of Cats, like the scene in which Taylor Swift’s kitty chanteuse Bombalurina descends from a hanging crescent moon to sprinkle glitter catnip over her feline admirers, are gaudily enjoyable.

And if that weren’t enough, the elusive chanteuse got another extra-special Christmas gift this year in the form of the song hitting No.

Baker left America for France while in her 20s, finding almost instant success as a chanteuse and dancer who was willing to push many envelopes, gaining the attention of Ernest Hemingway, Picasso and others.

Junebug first appears in the third act, a chanteuse barreling down the backroads of Kentucky on a motorcycle.

Her transformation from Manic Pixie Special-Needs Kid into budding Hope Sandoval-like indie chanteuse may be a bit of a credibility stretch, but if anyone can sell it, Skeggs can, with her incessantly mobile features and twitchy energy.

This 80-minute 1974 feature by Philippe Garrel is composed almost entirely of faces shot in close-up — mainly those of Seberg and the actress Tina Aumont, with the chanteuse Nico making a brief appearance.

The football stadium at La Porte High School wasn’t big enough to showcase all the talents of the late Marsha Matthews Carlton, a teen twirler and former Miss Pasadena who became a popular Houston actress and chanteuse.

History and Etymology for chanteuse

borrowed from French, from chanter "to sing" (going back to Old French) + -euse, feminine agent suffix, from feminine of -eux, adjective suffix, going back to Old French -eus, earlier -os, -ous, going back to Latin -ōsus -ose entry 1 — more at chant entry 1

Note: The feminine adjectival suffix -euse developed into an agent suffix in later Middle French, when, in line with the general loss of final consonants, the agent suffix -eur lost its consonant and became completely homonymous with the masculine adjectival suffix -eux; the two suffixes being identified, -euse came into use as a feminine complement to -eur. The restoration of final r in the suffix -eur has once again separated the suffixes.