troupe

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J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, immaculate in cutaway, ushered into the Blue Room at the White House, where the President, also in afternoon dress, was waiting, a gay troup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Son of two circus troup ers, Belgian-born, English-educated Louis Wulff has worked for Press Association ever since he was 16.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can allow my self to be Animal sociale, appliable to my company, but not gregale, to herd my self in every troup.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

At last I took my flute, and the whole troup kept screaming and dancing about in the backyard while I played, until my "boss" came and interrupted the proceedings.

From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Weitemeyer, Thorvald

Sedger was now master of the situation, and soon he was leading a troup of sprawling men through a maze of pretty gowns, in the performance of the intricate evolutions of a cotillon figure.

From With Edge Tools by Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)