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troupe

[ troop ]

noun

  1. a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.


verb (used without object)

, trouped, troup·ing.
  1. to travel as a member of a theatrical company; barnstorm.

troupe

/ truːp /

noun

  1. a company of actors or other performers, esp one that travels


verb

  1. intr (esp of actors) to move or travel in a group

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Word History and Origins

Origin of troupe1

1815–25, Americanism; < French: troop

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Word History and Origins

Origin of troupe1

C19: from French; see troop

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Synonym Study

See troop.

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Example Sentences

Spanish director Joan Font douses this version of the classic story with some playfulness, recruiting his performance troupe Els Comediants to tell the tale as old as time.

As the audience watches on, the team will prompt the AI to generate a script — which a troupe of actors will then perform, despite never having seen the lines before.

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By 2012, his idea for “The Visitors” had fully developed, and the troupe descended on the house in August.

What gives the film its greatest appeal, of course, is the chance it affords to see this legendary performance troupe in action.

Photo captions in an earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the theater troupe in the photographs and the location where the photographs were taken.

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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