figurante
Example Sentences
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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 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
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.
The poor figurante must devote years of incessant toil to her profitless task before she can shine in it.
From Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance by Smiles, Samuel
She was a bookbinder's accountant all the day, and in the evening she was a figurante at one of the theatres.
