figurante
Americannoun
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a ballerina who does not perform solo.
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a female performer with no spoken lines.
Example Sentences
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The fashionable lady who will write five or six pages in her diary respecting the effect upon her mind of such and such an "ideal" in marble, will have her drawing room table covered with Books of Beauty, in which the engravings represent the human form in every possible aspect of distortion and affectation; and the connoisseur who, in the morning, pretends to the most exquisite taste in the antique, will be seen, in the evening, in his opera-stall, applauding the least graceful gestures of the least modest figurante.
From Project Gutenberg
Dodichet was radiant; he waltzed into the room, and began by taking the figurante in his arms and whirling her about without giving her time to put down her brick and her hammer, despite her cries: "Let go, I say! or, at any rate, let me put down my brick!"
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Mlle. de Camargo presided over the Ch�teau of Berny for some four years, when an obscure figurante of the Opera, Mlle.
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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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She was a bookbinder's accountant all the day, and in the evening she was a figurante at one of the theatres.
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