claqueur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claqueur
Example Sentences
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No claqueur ever remembered to have heard the like before.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
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
"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
Navarrot, the ministerial claqueur, was already applauding Granet most enthusiastically.
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
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 Dutton Cook
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