Look up: svengali

1. svengali
   [Noun] Controller or master figure.
   Example: Gucci is the svengali of fashion. Everyone wants to wear his designs.
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2. Svengali
   Person who moulds another into a performer and masterminds his or her career. The original Svengali was a character in the novel Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier. ...
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3. Svengali
   noun the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby`s singing hypnotically
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4. Svengali
   Person who moulds another into a performer and masterminds his or her career. The original Svengali was a character in the novel Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier
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5. Svengali
   `Svengali` is a fictional character in George du Maurier`s 1894 novel Trilby. The character was portrayed in many silent film versions of the story and in talking pictures, played by John Barrymore in a 1931 film of the same name, by Donald Wolfit in a 1954 version in Technicolor, and by Pete...
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6. Svengali
   (album) `Svengali` is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1973 by Evans with a orchestra featuring Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, Herb Bushler, David Sanborn, Billy Harper, Richard Williams, Trevor Koehler, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson. Th...
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7. Svengali
   (musical) `Svengali` is a musical with a book and lyrics by Gregory Boyd and music by Frank Wildhorn. It is based on the 1894 novel Trilby by George du Maurier. The title character in this Gothic tale is a vocal coach who uses hypnotism to transform the tone-deaf Trilby into an ...
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