claqueur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claqueur
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.