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Originally Posted by TGS
If you search google pics with liseuse you will find lots of paintings of pretty ladies reading - and they are often called "la liseuse", which is then translated as "the reader" - hence liseuse = reader. Stuff about bed-jackets and reading lights are red herrings.
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yes, what i like most about that particular use of the word is that is spefically implies "a woman
who takes pleasure in reading" rather than simply "a female person engaged in the act of reading" which would be "lectrice". it's that added dimension which makes it all the nicer.
