claqueur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claqueur
Example Sentences
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"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
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
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
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