disquaire

Borrowed, with a change in meaning, from French disquaire (“record dealer; record shop”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkɛɚ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: disqu‧aire

disquaire (plural disquaires)

1. (dance, music, dated) A disc jockey, especially one in a French-speaking country.
   • 1963 July 5, “The Compleat Virtuosi”, in Time‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 December 2008:

     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.

   • 1964 May 30, Mike Gross, “Deccareques Put Out for Discothequeniks”, in Billboard: The International Music-record Newsweekly, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Billboard Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 1, column 3:

     In fact, [Harry] Meyerson had Slim Hyatt, the "disquaire" (disk jockey) at Shepheards, assist him in programming the album.

   • 2010, Robert Milliken, “Lillian Roxon: Selected Writings”, in Mother of Rock: The Lillian Roxon Story, 2nd edition, U.S.A.: ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, pages 408–409:

     In France, clubs found they didn't need live musicians to get people to dance – just a disquaire who "programmed" dance records and moods for the evening. Such a place had a name too, a discotheque.

   • 2012, William J. Mann, “Spring 1964”, in Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, section 7, page 487:

     He'd given the albums to the disquaire affiliated with Chez Castel, the popular Parisian discotheque.

• discaire

From disque +‎ -aire.

• IPA^(key): /dis.kɛʁ/

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disquaire m (plural disquaires)

1. record dealer (one who sells music records)
   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 52; republished as Frank Wynne, transl., 2018:

     Il avait une fonction, c’était le disquaire. Moins prestigieux que le guitariste, mais quand même mieux situé dans la hiérarchie que le péquin de base.

     He had a single quality, he was a record dealer. Not as cool as being a guitarist, but still higher up the pecking order than the average arsehole.

• “disquaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.