story-teller

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

STORY-TELLER, noun [story and tell.] 1. One who tells stories; a narrator of a series of incidents; as an amusing story-teller 2. A historian; in contempt. 3. One who tells fictitious stories.
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