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English
Etymology
From French claqueur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɑːˈkɜː(ɹ)/, /klæˈkɜː(ɹ)/
Noun
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:“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, →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
French
Etymology
From claquer (“to clap”) + -eur.
Pronunciation
Noun
claqueur m (plural claqueurs, feminine claqueuse)
- claqueur
Descendants
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French claqueur.
Noun
claqueur m (invariable)
- a member of a claque