torch singer

noun

torch singer

noun

1

A singer, most often a woman, of torch songs.

'It was my day for a singing lesson. He's trying to make a torch singer out of me.'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 98:

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