单词 | figurant |
释义 | figurantn. 1. A ballet-dancer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > ballet-dancer ballet dancer1759 figurante1782 figurant1790 1790 W. Combe Devil upon Two Sticks I. vi. 130 The lascivious agility of his figurantes. 1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. II. 264 The theatre at Paris..its statists and figurants. 1837 J. Richardson Brit. Legion (ed. 2) ii. 42 A sort of ballet the figurans and figurantes in which were inmates of a mad-house. 1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) iii. 52 The poor figurante must devote years of incessant toil to her profitless task. 2. A supernumerary character on the stage who takes no prominent part, and has little or nothing to say. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor playing specific type of part > with little or nothing to say property boy1685 supernumerary1755 walking gentleman1769 walking lady1769 figurant1775 statist1807 showgirl?1836 super1838 walker-on1876 property child1885 supe1885 walk-on1923 spear-carrier1960 1775 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 195 Plays, in which comedians, singers, dancers, figurantes, might all walk at a coronation. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris App. p. lxx The women can be little more than the figurantes, receiving a mock reverence merely to carry on the drama. 1886 Athenæum 2 Jan. 15/1 [In the play] Shakspeare is a mere figurant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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