claqueur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claqueur
Example Sentences
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And you are just another claqueur of current authoritarian regime.
From New York Times
Adam, you must be joking or be a claqueur of current government.
From New York Times
Under these circumstances I could not pose as a genuine Murl, although this fact did not disturb the genial and fraternal relations which existed between my colleagues and me; and on occasion also I was equal to the best of them in exercising the specialty of a genuine Murl claqueur.
From Project Gutenberg
Perhaps the most dedicated is Claqueur Nino Grassi, 60, who has clapped professionally at La Scala since he was ten years old.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition to fiddling on transatlantic ships and in European cabarets, he has been a professional claqueur in Vienna, a croupier in Nice, a politician's secretary in Prague, a war reporter-photographer in Persia, Ethiopia, China and the South Seas, a malt salesman in Venezuela, a soldier in his native Czechoslovakia, a lecturer on democracy in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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