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Definition of claqueur in English: claqueurnounklaˈkəːklɑːˈkəːklaˈkər A member of a claque. Example sentencesExamples - In the title story, ‘The Lost and Found,’ Dulce Maria O'Riley de Vaca works part time as a claqueur, applauding for a television program called ‘The Lost and Found Show.’
- The speeches went on, the ‘Internationale’ was being repeated for the tenth time, the sailors performed their fancy exercises and the claqueurs on the reviewing stand were shouting hurrahs.
- The manager of a theatre sends an order for any number of claqueurs.
- Before enlisting he had been the chief of a gang of claqueurs, whose business it was to lead the applause, or it might be, the hissing at the theatres of Rome.
- Some claqueurs even developed specialties - such as the rieur, the most expert laugher in a given claque.
Origin Mid 19th century: French, from claquer 'to clap'. Rhymes alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, Dhaka, hacker, Hakka, lacquer, maraca, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka Definition of claqueur in US English: claqueurnounklaˈkər A member of a claque. Example sentencesExamples - Before enlisting he had been the chief of a gang of claqueurs, whose business it was to lead the applause, or it might be, the hissing at the theatres of Rome.
- The manager of a theatre sends an order for any number of claqueurs.
- The speeches went on, the ‘Internationale’ was being repeated for the tenth time, the sailors performed their fancy exercises and the claqueurs on the reviewing stand were shouting hurrahs.
- In the title story, ‘The Lost and Found,’ Dulce Maria O'Riley de Vaca works part time as a claqueur, applauding for a television program called ‘The Lost and Found Show.’
- Some claqueurs even developed specialties - such as the rieur, the most expert laugher in a given claque.
Origin Mid 19th century: French, from claquer ‘to clap’. |