claqueur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claqueur
Example Sentences
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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
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
He stands upon a lower grade of the social step-ladder than the claqueur; very unjustly, as it appears to us, his scope for the display of original genius being decidedly larger.
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 Thackeray, William Makepeace
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