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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Their malignant modesty does not deserve the respect of an intelligent figurante.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870 by Various
All this was true, except about the French figurante.
From Men's Wives by Thackeray, William Makepeace
She was employed as a figurante in a small theatre.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys
For Bessy is to the procession of Plough Monday what the leading figurante is to the opera or ballet, and dances about as gracefully as the hippopotami described by Dr. Livingstone.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
The angel appearing to Jeanne d'Arc seems to have been modelled from a figurante at the opera.
From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine
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