claque

[ UK /klˈæk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
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How To Use claque In A Sentence

  • I seem to recall reading that Ravel did something similar on purpose, omitting the composers 'names from a concert program and then sitting in mortified amusement as the pro-Ravel claque unwittingly booed his own piece. Reading Session
  • 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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
  • The manager of a theatre sends an order for any number of claqueurs.
  • Is that crisis likely to go away after an emboldened army of the righteous (and well-financed claque of self-styled "economically responsible" free market boosters) won more nominal power? Danny Schechter: After the Election, What About the Economy?
  • Opéra Comique, I often obtained admission to that house as a _claqueur_. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
  • He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre. The Paris Sketch Book
  • He got clapped and cheered by the audience, or at least by the noisy loyalist claque who are dotted about the hall.
  • Some claqueurs even developed specialties - such as the rieur, the most expert laugher in a given claque.
  • 'Cracks' On the subject of reimagined history, there's a vicious little claque at the center of the period piece "Cracks," the curiosity from Jordan Scott daughter of Ridley, niece of Tony, which brings to mind both "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "Lord of the Flies. 'Win Win' 1, Sports Clichés 0
  • In even earlier times, politicians - even party leaders - used to address open public meetings in their election campaigns, not just carefully screened, ticket-only claques.
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