raconteur

Borrowed from French raconteur.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹæk.ɒnˈtəː/, /ˌɹæk.ɔ̃(n)ˈtəː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɹæk.ɑnˈtɝ/, /ˌɹæk.ɔ̃(n)ˈtɝ/

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raconteur (plural raconteurs)

1. A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit.
   • 1888, Henry James, The Liar.

     He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most mystifying figure in the house.

raconteur (third-person singular simple present raconteurs, present participle raconteuring, simple past and past participle raconteured)

1. To make witty remarks or stories.
   • 2003, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White‎, →ISBN, page 155:

     The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring.

From raconter +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kɔ̃.tœʁ/

raconteur m (plural raconteurs, feminine raconteuse)

1. storyteller, narrator

• “raconteur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• recourant