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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
troupe
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dance
▪ A Chechenlanguage theater and national Vaikakhk dance troupe began work.
▪ No previous dance troupe manager had attacked the entertainment world so vigorously.
▪ Merce Cunningham founded his dance troupe at Black Mountain.
▪ Improvisation and ingenuity, not tradition, are the backbone of a unique dance troupe that is becoming a Tucson favorite.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Chechenlanguage theater and national Vaikakhk dance troupe began work.
▪ All his favourite soloists appeared, many fronting his best troupes.
▪ In its 1964 season in London, the Ailey troupe performed at the Shaftesbury Theatre seven shows a week for six weeks.
▪ John faced a continual turnover with his juvenile troupes.
▪ The all-male strip troupe are being checked out by the Office of Fair Trading after a rival group complained about unfair practices.
▪ The big world of geopolitics, where the truth about Lockerbie probably lies, demands the presence of the troupe elsewhere.
▪ The following Sunday, however, Barnes suddenly found himself contemplating the demise of the Ailey troupe.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Troupe

Troupe \Troupe\, n. [F., troop. See Troop.] A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
troupe

1825, "company, band," especially of performers, actors, dancers, etc., from French troupe "company" (see troop (n.)).

Wiktionary
troupe

n. 1 A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers. 2 Any group of people working together on a shared activity. vb. (context intransitive English) To tour with a troupe.

WordNet
troupe

n. organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" [syn: company]

Wikipedia
Troupe

Troupe may refer to:

  • Dance troupe, a group of dancers
    • Fire troupe, a group of fire dancers
  • Troupe system, a method of playing role-playing games

Usage examples of "troupe".

It happened that the performer who had hitherto formed the base of the Car had quitted the troupe, and as, to fill this part, only strength and adroitness were necessary, Passepartout had been chosen to take his place.

At the last minute I shall use the pentacle to summon a troupe of the strongest djinn.

La Renommee, all vanilla and almonds, something several of the women in his troupe wore, but never so memorably.

A theatrical troupe from Earth was offered its own settlement and a subsidy and was meant to tour the other colonies with a repertory of ancient and modern drama.

The pickup meal finished, he and a number of the men of the troupe were drowning their sorrow in schnaps, wine and beer.

The rest of the troupe more enjoyably occupied the morning by unbundling the balloon from its long confinement and unfurling it across the field to admire it.

The fact that a guy like Whipper, with an education and a brain to use it, lived at the beach with a troupe of gazabos made him a little eccentric in his taste, if not exactly crazed.

Then a friend brought me photos of the Royal Bhutanese Dance Troupe performing at an Asia Pacific Festival, masked as gods and demons of Buddhist myth.

From the 7th October to the end of December, 1780, on the occasions of the representations given by a troupe of French comedians at the San Angelo theater, Casanova wrote a little paper called The Messenger of Thalia.

Pagan, in the nation of Ava, in the lands of Champa, we were entertained at dinner by a troupe of musicians who were all blind men.

Wisest, Ruler of Hova, Lord of the Universe, was being entertained by a troupe of Goefd dancers when his Lord of War, Wert, bounded into the Audience Hall.

I spotted the acting troupe that we had detained briefly along the Jalapa road before releasing them.

Marion would show with his Pekingese dog troupe, which always got drunker, and sicker, than he.

Almost as if any tiny troupe of saltimbanques had set about conveying the same information as a full pit-orchestra.

But the spruiker was very serious as one of the troupe extended a friendly hand and pulled Frank up the ladder to stand at one side of the eight already on the bridge.