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