figurante

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She was employed as a figurante in a small theatre.

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

She was a bookbinder's accountant all the day, and in the evening she was a figurante at one of the theatres.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various

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

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 Behrend, Arthur C.

All this was true, except about the French figurante.

From Men's Wives by Thackeray, William Makepeace