figurante

Example Sentences

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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 Behrend, Arthur C.

She was employed as a figurante in a small theatre.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

Mlle. de Camargo presided over the Ch�teau of Berny for some four years, when an obscure figurante of the Opera, Mlle.

From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel

Her listener had drifted from attention to the soft caressing tones of the one time Parisian figurante, whose devotion was so apparent and whose nature required a certain amount of demonstration.

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis

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