| ANIMATEUR | • animateur n. One who promotes particular activity, especially one of a cultural or artistic nature. • ANIMATEUR n. a person who enlivens or encourages something, especially a promoter of artistic enterprises. |
| ASCENDEUR | • ascendeur n. A metal grip that attaches to a rope sling and can be tightened to hold a climber or loosened to allow… • ASCENDEUR n. (French) a metal grip that is threaded on a rope as a climbing aid. |
| BRICOLEUR | • bricoleur n. (Anthropology) A person who constructs bricolages; one who creates using whatever materials are available. • BRICOLEUR n. one who engages in bricolage, potters about. |
| CHAUFFEUR | • chauffeur n. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine). • chauffeur n. (Firefighting) The driver of a fire truck. • chauffeur v. (Intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car). |
| CONFISEUR | • confiseur n. A French confectioner. • CONFISEUR n. (French) a confectioner. |
| DEPANNEUR | • depanneur n. (Canada, Quebec) Alternative spelling of dépanneur. • dépanneur n. (Canada, Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario) A convenience store, especially one that sells alcohol. • DEPANNEUR n. (Canadian) a convenience store in French Canada. |
| FRAICHEUR | • FRAICHEUR n. (French) freshness. |
| PETROLEUR | • petroleur n. One who lights fires with petrol, especially (historical) a revolutionary who attacked public buildings… • PETROLEUR n. (French) a rioter who uses petroleum, as in the Paris uprising of 1871. |
| PROCUREUR | • procureur n. (Law) A procurator. • PROCUREUR n. (French) a procurator, also PROCURATOR. |
| PROSATEUR | • prosateur n. A writer of French prose. • PROSATEUR n. (French) one who writes prose for a living. |
| RACONTEUR | • raconteur n. A storyteller, especially a person noted for telling stories with skill and wit. • raconteur v. To make witty remarks or stories. • RACONTEUR n. (French) a teller of anecdotes. |
| REGISSEUR | • REGISSEUR n. (French) a ballet director. |
| SHAMATEUR | • shamateur n. A sportsman or athlete who is officially an amateur but who makes money from playing, or who otherwise… • SHAMATEUR n. an amateur who is actually paid for his or her performance. |
| SOUTENEUR | • souteneur n. A man who protects a prostitute and lives off her earnings; a pimp. • SOUTENEUR n. (French) a prostitute's pimp or bully. |
| VOLTIGEUR | • voltigeur n. A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter. • voltigeur n. (Military) One of a picked company of skirmishers in each regiment of the French infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. • voltigeur n. (Canada) ranger. |