Calamity Jane, is a legend from Wild West. She was known as a sharpshooter, raconteur, and frontierswoman. She was known to be a hard-drinking crossdresser as she always preferred to dress like a man. She was one of the most popular characters of the West. This portrait was taken around the 1880s.Submitted by sandboxvet t3_1021e46 in OldSchoolCool
drewkawa t1_j2sjtu1 wrote
TIL: rac·on·teur - a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
Aka: story teller
TexanTalkin998877 t1_j2t169p wrote
From the french - to tell a story "raconter une histoire".
MySocraticMethod t1_j2tsu6n wrote
Technically she was a “raconteuse” which is a female raconteur. (I just learned that today too!)
warh0g-927 t1_j2u98eg wrote
I guess this is probably where the english word ”recount” comes from?
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