Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A prompter in a theater.

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Examples

  • Mais voilà que la mémoire lui manque, et malgré les efforts désespérés du souffleur, il s'arrête.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • In among the ragged heads and weltering white surf of the Pierres-à-Beurre; past the sounding cave where the souffleur blows his spray a hundred feet into the south-west gale.

    Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

  • "Waggid," which the learned and angry Graetz (Geschichte, etc.vol. ix.) absurdly translates "Traum souffleur."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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