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Compere

verb

Act as a master of ceremonies. Synonym: emcee.

noun

British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc.

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"Compere" Quotes from Famous Books

... letter from your friends in Burgundy, and are going away soon with your nieces to stay with them for a while. You had better pay your rent for three months in advance, and tell your landlord the same thing; saying that you may go suddenly anytime, as a compere who is in Paris, and is also going back, is going to take charge of you on the journey, and that he may call for you at any time. Thus when he finds that you have left, your absence will be accounted for; not that ...

— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty

... called for pipe and tabour. Then as the evening lowered, men told stories over the hearth of the girl who had seen three suns at once upon the morn of Holy Trinity from a neighbouring hill-top, or of the luck of their compere Jehan, whose boy, born on the day of the conversion of St. Paul, was safe for all his life from danger of poison or of snake-bite. All these customs and superstitions are reflected in Hercule Grisel's Latin verses, which he ...

— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook