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Word of the Day for Sunday, June 15, 2008claque \KLACK\, noun: 1. A group hired to applaud at a performance. He cultivated the "Georgetown set" of leading journalists and columnists and had them cheering for him as if he had hired a claque. Behind the hacks was the claque. They cheered and whooped in a vague way, like a group of restrained English persons at a Texas rodeo: "Whee! Whoooo! Polite cough!" Charles Bukowski suffers from too good a press-- a small but loudly enthusiastic claque. Claque comes from French, from claquer, "to clap," ultimately of imitative origin. | |||||||||
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