figurante

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noun

A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.

OriginFrench figurante →
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Meanings

nounfigurante (plural figurantes)

plural figurantes

  1. datedA female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
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    Gradually the hedges and fields give way before long rows of houses; and a few single domiciles, with plats of turf cut into patterns, and bunches of daisies dusty and dry as if just dropped from the wreath of a figurante, are what the orientals call so pleasant and rural, so convenient for stages and Sunday.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215

Origin

  1. Frenchfigurante
  2. Englishfigurante

From French figurante.

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APA

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“figurante.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/figurante. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “figurante,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/figurante.

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