claqueur

American  

[kla-kur] / klæˈkɜr /

Also claquer

noun

1. a member of a claque.

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Etymology

Origin of claqueur

1830–40; < French, equivalent to claque claque + -eur -eur

Example Sentences

Brossard having introduced me to the sous-chef of the Claque at the Opéra Comique, I often obtained admission to that house as a claqueur.

From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

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

"I am going to see the new piece Pomps and Vanities is bringing out, and I want you as a sort of claqueur."

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

But the license of Monsieur Brunet's tongue was little relished by the imperial charlatan,—le claqueur de la Grand Armée, as he has been called.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

No claqueur ever remembered to have heard the like before.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various