figurante

Example Sentences

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Her listener had drifted from attention to the soft caressing tones of the one time Parisian figurante, whose devotion was so apparent and whose nature required a certain amount of demonstration.

From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis

She was employed as a figurante in a small theatre.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

All this was true, except about the French figurante.

From Men's Wives by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The angel appearing to Jeanne d'Arc seems to have been modelled from a figurante at the opera.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

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