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Definition of "claque" [claque]

  • A group of persons hired to applaud at a performance. (noun)
  • A group of fawning admirers. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "claque" in a sentence
  • "At one public meeting open to all a 'claque' of Islamists urged the adoption of Sharia Law (the first time I heard mention of this name for the summary justice system of the theocrats)."
  • "Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed "claque", and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power."
  • "His publishers have now thought it worthwhile to bring out Bolaño's very first published novel, The Skating Rink, hoping for a readership quite different from the tiny claque which greeted its first publication in 1993."