claqueur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claqueur
Example Sentences
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The chatouilleur, or tickler, a variety of the genus claqueur, is in vogue chiefly at the smaller theatres.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
In any case, the trunkmaker was a sort of foreshadowing of the claqueur.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre.
From The Paris Sketch Book by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Navarrot, the ministerial claqueur, was already applauding Granet most enthusiastically.
From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri
He stands upon a lower grade of the social step-ladder than the claqueur; very unjustly, as it appears to us, his scope for the display of original genius being decidedly larger.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
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