claqueur

He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Nature had cast this mild-eyed individual for the part of accompanyist in the comedy we call life; a _rôle_ he sometimes varied as now, with the office of _claqueur_, when an uncommonly clever proof of madame's talent for business drew from him this noiseless tribute of applause.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

The _chatouilleur_, or tickler, a variety of the genus _claqueur_, is in vogue chiefly at the smaller theatres.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

He stands upon a lower grade of the social step-ladder than the _claqueur_; very unjustly, as it appears to us, his scope for the display of original genius being decidedly larger.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

Brunet's tongue was little relished by the imperial _charlatan, -- le claqueur de la Grand Armée_, as he has been called.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various

No _claqueur_ ever remembered to have heard the like before.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

But in any case there will appear in Leipzig as a claqueur

Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

Opéra Comique, I often obtained admission to that house as a _claqueur_.

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

Navarrot, the ministerial claqueur, was already applauding

His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876

IDAMORE, nick-name of Chardin junior while he was _claqueur_ in a theatre on the Boulevard du Temple, Paris.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865