romancer

From Old French romanceour. Surface etymology is romance +‎ -er.

romancer (plural romancers)

1. One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
   • 1977, Billy Joel (music), “The Stranger”, in The Stranger:

     Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.

2. (dated) A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.

romance +‎ -er (“Variety -er”)

romancer (plural romancers)

1. (entertainment industry) A romantic film or television show.

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romanç +‎ -er

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ro.mənˈse/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ru.mənˈse/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ro.manˈseɾ/

romancer (feminine romancera, masculine plural romancers, feminine plural romanceres)

1. Pertaining or relating to romances (in both verse and prose)
2. (colloquial) smooth-talking

romancer m (plural romancers)

1. The body of poetic romances from the early modern period of Iberian literature.

romancer m (plural f-romancera)

1. smooth=talker
2. jongleur

   Synonym: joglar

• “romancer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old French romancier (“to narrate in the vernacular”), from romanz.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.mɑ̃.se/

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romancer

1. (transitive) to romanticize, fictionalize

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

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