figurante

Etymology

From French figurante.

figurante means A female figurant, especially a ballet dancer. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.

noun

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 and Sunday.”