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n. A group of persons hired to applaud at a performance.

n. A group of fawning admirers.

n. A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.

n. A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.

n. A group of fawning admirers.

n. A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

n. a group of sycophantic followers.

n. In theaters, a set of men, called claqueurs, distributed through the audience, and hired to applaud the piece or the actors; the system of paid applause.

n. Hence Any band of admirers applauding and praising from interested motives.

n. a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance

"Oscar faced the American Philistine public without his accustomed "claque", and under these circumstances a half-success was evidence of considerable power."

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