discaire

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French.

Noun

discaire (plural discaires)

  1. (dated) A disc jockey.[1]
    • 1963, “The Compleat Virtuosi,” Time, 5 April, 1963,
      Some discothèques allow their patrons to suggest tunes to the disquaire, but at many such an impertinence would be unthinkable—like asking Pablo Casals to play Melancholy Baby.
    • 1978, Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, Chapter 1, p. 25,
      […] in the winter he used to go out dancing at five in the morning, and why? Because then the crowd had gone, the discaire was no longer playing for them, but for his friends, and that was the best dancing.

References

  1. ↑ N.H. and S.K. Mager, The Morrow Book of New Words, New York: Quill, 1982, p. 79.
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