Meanings of claque in English

He never invites anybody to dinner except Porcher, the chief of the claque.

The first day there was a cram, the second day only the claque remained.

I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard.

A claque of gossipy old besoms - the men even have universal grannies in their repertoire!

The Opera claque is well managed.

Since his death in 1952, Bortkiewicz's music is all forgotten, except by a small claque of ardent campaigners.

You need singers, an orchestra, a conductor, an audience, a claque....

The score or so cops in the audience, who are sitting together in a nervous claque, are absolutely cracking-up.

But Lib Dem peeresses failed to swoon and the large Clegg claque clapped vehemently to cover up their surprise.

Lem Perry, the leader of the claque, had a somewhat set speech, being uninventive in the construction of new phrases.

The Comte d'Aulnoy, whose wife, they say, was once seduced by Lamotte, has hired a claque to shout down the play.

A claque of his supporters replied with feigned enthusiasm, but a malcontent at Alice's side rose and stamped to the door.

In the rear rows, a claque started a steady handclapping, and cat-calls and hisses from unmannerly boys became more and more frequent.

This mannerism had no purpose beyond indicating to the audience the end of a passage and giving the claque the signal to applaud.

Nevertheless, though the place is peopled only with silence and solitude, the claque continues to do its duty, for it receives its pay.

Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed "claque", and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power.