The first day there was a cram, the second day only the claque remained.
Nevertheless, though the place is peopled only with silence and solitude, the claque continues to do its duty, for it receives its pay.
By 1830 the claque had become a regular institution.
The business of the claque is to pass off a theatrical pig as a theatrical sheep--and it sometimes succeeds.
In the meantime, ere the theatre world has awakened to the dishonourable character of the claque system, the claqueurs grow fat, and in some cases possess their town and country residences.
The claque of David's atelier was a formidable one, for the great artist had from sixty to eighty students attached to him.
Wagner is known to have been absolutely opposed not only to the claque but to the most legitimate bursts of applause.
The question has often been raised as to whether not only the claque but even spontaneous applause should not be suppressed.
But whatever may be said against it, the claqueis great and, in France at least, will prevail.
Not only in Germany, but wherever Wagner is played, theclaque is, for the occasion, dispensed with.
Under the Restoration the claquewas a regular institution.
Of recent years the claque has been made the object of some very lively attacks by writers who understand the dignity of their profession.
Meanwhile, apart from the claque maintained at all the Paris theatres by the management, there are often special claques which are paid by leading members of the company, jealous of one another's reputation.
Beyond all question, recognizable by the unmistakable family features, it was there--the organized theatrical claque on the floor of the British House of Commons.
And now and then when the roar of interruption became loud and almost deafening, there arose from the Tory bench below the gangway that strange new claque which on that Monday night I heard for the first time in the House of Commons.
The claqueat the Opera is very well selected, though I wouldn't care to be seen with the claque on the boulevard.
Yet while one can understand the persistence of certain Parisian defects, the long life of the claque remains a mystery.
So she arranged privately for a small claque of her own, and that night she also was applauded.
The claque is an institution so openly recognized in French theatres that the proudest dramatic or lyric temple in Paris would not know what to do without it.
Lemaitre and Dorval of the manager: "did you not promise that your claque should be discharged?
So be it," said the manager: "the claque shall be discharged.
But the defense claque had evidently planned otherwise.
Announcement, for example, that immunity had been given the Supervisors was received by the anti-prosecution press with a storm of protest, and used by the pro-defense claque most effectively.
Lady Holme glanced from one to the other, and murmured to Sir Donald with a smile: "I think we shall find to-night that the claque is not abolished in England.
Because they don't all know the head of the claque as I do.
Between the acts the members of the claque would adjourn to a tavern on Barquillo Street, varying this occasionally with a visit to another place on the Plaza, del Rey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "claque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
