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le/la chantre

/ʃɑ̃tʁ/ noun · masculine or feminine C2
  1. cantor
  2. bard, minstrel (literary)
  3. figurehead; champion; advocate (figuratively) · Friedrich Nietzsche est le chantre de l'apocalypse de la modernité. Friedrich Nietzsche is the champion of the apocalypse of modernity.

Plural chantres · Feminine chantresse

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