claqueur
/klaˈkəː
/ /klɑːˈkəː/noun
A member of a claque.Some claqueurs even developed specialties - such as the rieur, the most expert laugher in a given claque....
- 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.
- 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.’
Origin
Mid 19th century: French, from claquer 'to clap'.
Rhymes
- heap
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- hear
- hearable
- Heard and McDonald Islands
- hearer
- hear! hear!
- hearing
- hearing aid
- hearing dog
- hearing-impaired
- hearing loop
- hearken
- hear Mass
- hearsay
- hear say (or tell) of (or that)
- hearse
- Hearst, Patty
- Hearst, William Randolph
- heart
- heartache
- heart-aching
- heart and soul
- heart attack
- heart attack on a plate