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Examples of claque
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Those words drew choreographed chants of approval from a claque in the audience.
From the smh.com.au
Both have a feature on the Oompa-Loompas for the Oompa-Loompa claque out there.
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This inspired the 16th-century French poet Jean Daurat to develop the modern claque.
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Carrara and Alabisio are the organizers of the La Scala claque.
From the time.com
Soprano Leontyne Price has even paid the claque not to applaud.
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This Cameron-supporting claque does not speak for all the media.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
The crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque.
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Actually, they are catering to a masochistic mea culpa claque and assorted liberal breast beaters.
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Every dancer needs a claque, and Rudolf Nureyev, 29, commands a classier grade of palm beater than most.
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- A group of followers hired to applaud at a performance
- Claque (French for "clapping") is, in its origin, a term which refers to an organized body of professional applauders in French theatres and opera houses. Members of a claque are called claqueurs.
- People who are hired to sit in an audience to clap and applaud during a performance
- People in the audience who are hired to applaud; the tradition of the claque began in Roman theater.
