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
There stood I for whole mornings, with a long staff, and stretched my legs; but notwithstanding all my good- will, it was Dahlen's opinion that I should never get beyond a figurante.
From True Story of My Life by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
She was employed as a figurante in a small theatre.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Alys Hallard
All this was true, except about the French figurante.
From Men's Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Arthur C. Behrend
