figurante
Example Sentences
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All this was true, except about the French figurante.
From Men's Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Marah Ellis Ryan
There stood I for whole mornings, with a long staff, and stretched my legs; but notwithstanding all my good- will, it was Dahlen's opinion that I should never get beyond a figurante.
From True Story of My Life by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
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
She was a bookbinder's accountant all the day, and in the evening she was a figurante at one of the theatres.
