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UK
/tɹˈuːp/
]
[ US /ˈtɹup/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹup/ ]
NOUN
-
organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel
How To Use troupe In A Sentence
- She even formed an American touring troupe with the distinguished George Washington Smith, America's first, and aptly named, premier danseur, who taught ballet in Philadelphia until his death in 1899.
- I straightened and jumped back just as a sextet of black-and-white CinSims trouped in, fresh from the film and the farm. Silver Zombie
- I admire your fortitude, but there's a fine line between being a trouper and recklessness.
- Well, Stanley Donwood's artwork reminds me of the playbills from Victorian music halls or a rickety theatre troupe travelling across the land.
- He leads a little troupe of amateur actors from village to village, putting on an old-fashioned dumbshow - a type of humorous play with a stock plot.
- The grant money subsidised the building of the troupe and paid for costumes and sets. Times, Sunday Times
- The harlequin is enamoured of a young dancer who has been forced to marry the proprietor of the troupe.
- The frontage was our Southsea museum, the yards around the back housed our wintering circus troupe, and inside the dining hall the art department had erected a fairground marquee for interior cover. Archive 2007-08-01
- Kuang and his troupe of tyro assassins are younger and more in over their heads than they realize, and things get emotionally and operationally out of hand with a rapidity that is stunning.
- United are a circus troupe where performers take turns to do their bit. Times, Sunday Times