figurante
Example Sentences
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All this was true, except about the French figurante.
From Men's Wives by Thackeray, William Makepeace
My dear Friend, *** My exertions here have been incessant, for in whatever company I go, I am obliged to be the figurante of the circle.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.
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 Adams, W. H. Davenport
The angel appearing to Jeanne d'Arc seems to have been modelled from a figurante at the opera.
From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine
She was a bookbinder's accountant all the day, and in the evening she was a figurante at one of the theatres.
