figurante
Example Sentences
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Well, I can be a nursery-governess, or I can sing in a chorus; I should make a very decent figurante, or I could go round with baskets.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various
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 A. Turnbull
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 Samuel Smiles
The angel appearing to Jeanne d'Arc seems to have been modelled from a figurante at the opera.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
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 Xavier Hommaire de Hell
