figurante

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The young figurante frequently stretched out her arms and knelt down as if to invoke some invisible being.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

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.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various

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 Cottle, Joseph

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