n.
1. Someone who takes part in a conversation, often formally or officially.
2. The performer in a minstrel show who is placed midway between the end men and engages in banter with them.
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"The young Cossack made his mighty interlocutor smile," says Thiers.War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo
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