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figurantes

figurantes is the plural of figurante.

Meaning of figurante

Noun

figurante (plural figurantes)

  1. (dated) A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer.
    • 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...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 215

Questions about figurantes

What is figurantes the plural of?
Figurantes is the plural of figurante.

Words near figurantes in the dictionary

  1. figuralities
  2. figurality
  3. figurally
  4. figurant
  5. figurante
  6. figurantes
  7. figurants
  8. Figuras
  9. figurate
  10. figurate number
  11. figurate numbers

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