| 释义 |
‖ figurante|figuˈrante|
Pl. -ti, occas. -tes.
[It. figurante, pr. pple. of figurare to figure.]
= prec. 1.
1782F. Burney Cecilia (1809) I. viii. 81 The figuranti will divert you beyond measure. 1821Byron Juan iv. lxxxv, As for the figuranti, they are like The rest of all that tribe. 1826Heber Journ. India (1828) II. xxviii. 283 The bundles of red cloth which swaddle the figuranté of Hindostan.
transf.1830Scott Demonol. i. 20 The green figurantés..came capering and frisking..with great glee. 1870O. W. Holmes Old Vol. of Life (1891) 269 The spangles of conversational gymnasts and figurantes. |