chasseurs

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On its website, Antaios said the scandal surrounding the book “has shown that none of the claqueurs has ever read the book at all”.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2017

“The audience does not trust itself, it trusts someone else,” said the ballet critic Vadim Gayevsky, who fell in with the claqueurs as a boy in the 1940s.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013

But dancers’ reticence to talk about the claque is also out of self-preservation, since the Bolshoi’s claqueurs are known as thin-skinned and vengeful, with a range of inventive strategies for interfering with performances.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013

With the passage of time, relationships with artists can turn fractious; claqueurs often prefer to deal with their mothers.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013

There was then a meeting of the claqueurs at some appointed place—usually a wine-shop in the neighbourhood of the theatre—and the plan of action was arranged, the army of applauders organised and marshalled.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton