claques
- plural of claque.
Example Sentences
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In French theatre, groups of professional clappers, known as "claques", were hired by performers to make them appear more popular with audiences.
From BBC • May 28, 2015
All the world's great opera houses have claques, and the Met's is typical.
From Time Magazine Archive
In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from all but their private claques.
From Time Magazine Archive
As to paid claques, presentation-tickets, patrons, advance agents, all the booming and flattery, the jam of the powder for an English audience, he had no idea of the existence of such things.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John
