Crossword-Solution: DISEUR 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Elle signifie aussy que sy bien lauditeur de la messe come the saier, ought to be chaste, or they be nat worthy to be to le diseur, doibuent estre chaiste, ou ilz ne sont point dignes destre a suche misteris.

For side by side with her reputation as a singer and actress, Sophie was building up another reputation, and one which was to endure long after her stage triumphs had been forgotten: that of a _diseur de bons mots_, and of _bons mots_ of a peculiarly caustic kind.

Juvenal says that when Ulysses, at the table of Alcinous, described the person and deeds of the cannibal Polyphemus, some of the guests turned pale, while the narrator, to others seemed only a jester: “Risum fortasse quibusdam Moverat mendax Aretalogus;” or, as the Jesuit Tarteron translates this passage,--“Les autres pâmoient de rire, et regardoient Ulysse comme un diseur de contes faits à plaisir.” Some of the guests, in fact, laughed at Ulysses as they would have done at a regular romancer.

The ‘Dissour,’ the old Norman ‘diseur,’ similar in character to the rhymer and the juggler, seems to have left no memorial, saving it be in our ‘Dissers;’[314] neither can I trace ‘le Tregetour’ later than the fifteenth century.