figurante
Example Sentences
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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
She was employed as a figurante in a small theatre.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys
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
Mlle. de Camargo presided over the Ch�teau of Berny for some four years, when an obscure figurante of the Opera, Mlle.
From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel
She was a bookbinder's accountant all the day, and in the evening she was a figurante at one of the theatres.
