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troupe
[ troop ]
noun
- a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
verb (used without object)
- to travel as a member of a theatrical company; barnstorm.
troupe
/ truːp /
noun
- a company of actors or other performers, esp one that travels
verb
- intr (esp of actors) to move or travel in a group
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Example Sentences
Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, and a host of others got their start with the improv troupe.
Newman asked the audience, referring to a comedy troupe that preceded Newman.
He met and married his first wife, Jacqueline Witte, in 1949, when they were members of an acting troupe in Illinois.
After brief runs in community theater and college, she hit the road with a Renaissance fair troupe.
It was dark and somewhat stuffy, and it was “home” to a troupe of six.
There were five men and three women in the circus troupe, and among the four nuns was the grave reverend mother of a convent.
Toute la nuit ce ne fust que haranguer, chanter, danser; car telle est la vie de toutes ces gens lorsqu'ils sont en troupe.
He dropped his last name, thinking the Smith Troupe would not sound as well as Homer.
And there came news that the king was in some gambling house with a troupe of that archfiend's spies.
The first playhouse, we should remember, was not erected by a troupe of actors, but by a money-seeking individual.
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