0 a group of people who admire and support a person very strongly and agree with what he or she says or does:
Even in her darkest hours Margaret Thatcher had her passionate advocates, her loud claque of admirers.
Such people are the 21st-century equivalent of the claque, paid not with cash but with an invitation to the post-show party.
Though most frequently singers became the objects of public rivalries, and raucous claques would harass or promote a particular vocalist, voice problems extended across the musical domain.
Even the claque was part of this - so much so that around the middle of the nineteenth century its leader was chosen by ministerial appointment.
Later, the topic of spoken repertory occasionally reappears in connection with particular anecdotes, such as the organised audience expulsion of the paid claque at the theatre.
They should have regular meetings—a claque, as it were—of non-executives.
He left behind no powerful political organization or claque of partisans.
By 1830 the claque had become an institution.
The house was full, no claque!
