claqueur
See also: Claqueur
English edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
claqueur (plural claqueurs)
- (chiefly historical) A member of the claque employed to applaud during a theatre performance.
- 1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter XXI, in My Novel[1]:
- “Many a clever fellow fails through life, because the silly fellows, whom half a word well spoken could make his claqueurs, turn him into ridicule. Whatever you are, avoid the fault of most reading men: in a word, don’t be a prig!”
- 1930 February 23, “Theatre Claqueurs in Vienna Form Union”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- One hundred and fifty “iron-handed” Vienna theatre claqueurs today formed a trade union, probably the first of its kind in the world. […] The most popular singers have been obliged to give free tickets and even to donate cash, lest the claque retaliate by frantic applause at the wrong moment.
References edit
- “claqueur”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
From claquer (“to clap”) + -eur.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
claqueur m (plural claqueurs, feminine claqueuse)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “claqueur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French claqueur.
Noun edit
claqueur m (invariable)
- a member of a claque