figurante

[ fig-yuh-rant, -rahnt; French fee-gy-rahnt ]

noun

1. a ballerina who does not perform solo.
2. a female performer with no spoken lines.

Example Sentences

Their malignant modesty does not deserve the respect of an intelligent figurante.

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The young figurante frequently extended her arms and threw herself on her knees, as if in invocation of some unseen power.

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The poor figurante must devote years of incessant toil to her profitless task before she can shine in it.

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The young figurante frequently stretched out her arms and knelt down as if to invoke some invisible being.

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The angel appearing to Jeanne d'Arc seems to have been modelled from a figurante at the opera.

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