compere

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What I really love about old gig posters is the detail: the name of the compere, the ticket prices, the number of shows a night.

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  1. noun The master of ceremonies, as of a television entertainment program or a variety show.
  2. transitive verb To serve as master of ceremonies for.
  3. intransitive verb To serve as the master of ceremonies.

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  • In those days it was held that the god-mother of a child stood to it in the relation of a second mother: hence originated the term of 'commere' and 'compere,' which Joan gave the d'Epinals. —  Joan of Arc
  • He had been a doctor in hospitals at the front, was familiar with the remote Russian provinces, had witnessed the bloodshed of the Civil War in Kiev, taken part in skirmishes against the mountainous tribes in the Caucasus, received patients as a specialist in venereal diseases, and also managed to be an actor, compere, lecturer, dictionary compiler and engineer on a scientific and technical committee! —  BULGAKOV'S FATE: FACT AND FICTION
  • But move away from the compere-like chats with the audience, and the material isn't much better than joke-book fare. —  Chortle News RSS
  • The compere was not really interested as it wasn't sensational enough.
  • On the front, Mariella Frostrup, who presumably didn't have to sign a non-disclosure form for her role as an official "compere" for the leaders 'spouses, has plenty of observations from inside the tent, but there's nothing about her emotional speech about the value of education. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
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  1. French compère, from Old French, godfather, companion, from Medieval Latin compater : Latin com-, com- + Latin pater, father; see pater.
 

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