(n.) A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Columnist Matthew Parris, a friend of Gove, warned in the Times last week that the minister appears to have "a secret feral side", aided and abetted by "a bellicose claque of advisers, the education secretary's virtual motorcade".
(2) Repeatedly we found a kind of a deformation resembling collapse or folding up of a "chapeau claque" top hat.
(3) And once that happens, the source of all this rage naturally springs not from the actions of the police but an opportunistic claque of Fox and the right’s favorite bêtes noire: the “race hustlers”.