figurante
Example Sentences
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The young figurante frequently extended her arms and threw herself on her knees, as if in invocation of some unseen power.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
Mademoiselle Prévost, alarmed at such a triumph, intrigued with such success that Mademoiselle de Camargo was soon forced to fall back to the position of a mere figurante.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
For Bessy is to the procession of Plough Monday what the leading figurante is to the opera or ballet, and dances about as gracefully as the hippopotami described by Dr. Livingstone.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend
All this was true, except about the French figurante.
From Men's Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray
My dear friend, … My exertions have been incessant, for in whatever company I go, I am obliged to be the figurante of the circle.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
