figurante
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
figurante (plural figurantes)
- (dated) A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215:
- Gradually the hedges and fields give way before long rows of houses; and a few single domiciles, with plats of turf cut into patterns, and bunches of daisies dusty and dry as if just dropped from the wreath of a figurante, are what the orientals call so pleasant and rural, so convenient for stages and Sunday.
References[edit]
- “figurante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Adverb[edit]
figurante
- present adverbial active participle of figuri
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
figurante f (plural figurantes)
Further reading[edit]
- “figurante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Participle[edit]
figurante (plural figuranti)
Noun[edit]
figurante m (plural figuranti)
- extra, bit player, walk-on (in a film, play, TV show etc.)
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
figūrante
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: fi‧gu‧ran‧te
Noun[edit]
figurante m or f by sense (plural figurantes)
- extra, bit player, walk-on (in a film, play, TV show etc.)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
figurante m or f by sense (plural figurantes, feminine figuranta or figurante, feminine plural figurantas or figurantes)
- extra, bit player, walk-on (in a film, play, TV show etc.)
- 1925, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, El Papa del mar:
- se le aparecían imaginativamente como personajes de ópera bajando de un carro de oro falso entre muchedumbres de coristas y figurantes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading[edit]
- “figurante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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