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claqueur

American  
[kla-kur] / klæˈkɜr /
Also claquer

noun

  1. a member of a claque.


Etymology

Origin of claqueur

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


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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

He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre.

From The Paris Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

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 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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

No claqueur ever remembered to have heard the like before.

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

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