The Collaborative International Dictionary
Claqueur \Cla`queur"\, n. [F.] One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
Wiktionary
n. One of the claque employed to applaud at a theatre.
Usage examples of "claqueur".
Here they are either performers or claqueurs, an uproar not being offensive to them, because they create it.
That of a political gossip, of a paid claqueur, is more agreeable, and such is the opinion of all the idlers, summoned by the bugle to work on the camps around Paris.
Surrounded by paid yappers like victims for the ancient Romans celebrations of purifications, our provincials applaud, cheer and get excited, the same as on the night before at the signal given by the claqueurs and the regulars.
In fact, some months later, the number of claqueurs, male and female, is much greater, and finally reaches a thousand.
Under Robespierre, the four hundred mutes "du ventre" were the reporters, the voters, the claqueurs, and the agents of the worst decrees against religion, property and persons.