claque
Die Claque (The Claque, 1988) by :de:Guido MesserGuido Messer. Installed in Schwetzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, it depicts a claque (sense 1).
Meaning
Noun
- A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
Origin
- From French claque, from claquer (paying audience members to applaud having started at the Paris Opera), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klakōną, from Proto-Indo-European *glag-.
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