claqueur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of claqueur
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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 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
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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