raconteur

• It is always dangerous to accept one remarkable talker's view of the characteristics of another; and if this is true of men who merely compete with each other in the ordinary give-and-take of the dinner-table epigrammatist and raconteur, the caution is doubly necessary in the case of two rival prophets—two competing oracles. —  English Men of Letters: Coleridge
• I became a raconteur, the wittiest humorist, sensitive and worshiping. —  The Tartan Sell - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 10
• Fox had the air of a successful raconteur, the Lampreys that of an absorbed audience. —  Death of a Peer - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 10: 1940
• Artist, raconteur, and saxophonist Marshall Arisman was born in Jamestown, New York, the home of Lucille Ball and 10,000 Maniacs. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• The favorite topic of the third raconteur was the flush times on Oil Creek in the early '60's, when he had drilled a dry hole near "Colonel Drake's" pioneer venture. —  A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel

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