impressionist
nounEtymology Borrowed from French impressionniste.
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle A performer who does impressions; a mimic.
- When impressionists (and especially lazy impressionists) delivered their comedic interpretation of [Bill] Clinton, the phrase they always used was “I feel your pain,” expressed with a sympathetic Southern drawl.2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- impressionistic, neoimpressionist, nonimpressionist, postimpressionist, preimpressionist