supernumeraries

Bradford moved to amend by inserting the word supernumeraries, before the word commissaries.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863 Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1862

Most members -- called "supernumeraries" -- are married, but their religious gatherings and retreats are sexually segregated.

Opus Dei In The Open 2007

Among the supernumeraries was a fat boy with a comical face.

Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Daniel Frohman 1895

I believed the theater employed regularly seven hundred persons in all its different departments, without reckoning the great number of what were called supernumeraries, who were hired by the night at Christmas, Easter, and on all occasions of any specially showy spectacle.

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

"supernumeraries" - people who were employed by the government but did no work and collected salaries every month.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

"supernumeraries," but with special duties as our company ambulance corps, having charge, under the surgeon of the battalion, of our company litters and our other simple medical and surgical outfit.

Four years under Marse Robert, 1904

It's what the supernumeraries, all the extras who populate the crowd scenes in works such as "Aida" and "Madame Butterfly," are chatting about while the stars in the foreground sing their hearts out about doomed love, or whatever.

Suiting Up for the Met Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Which raises the obvious question: What do supernumeraries do?

Suiting Up for the Met Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Especially after Richard Holmes , the administrator of supernumeraries, informed me, just before we mounted the two-story set behind the curtain where the cast was taking their first act bows that I couldn't wear my glasses onstage.

Bravo, to the Rear Stage Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

By contrast, the villain Ottone's hipster outfit, with small-brim fedora, and the two soldier supernumeraries' automatic weapons were not site-specific.

The Tests of Patience Heidi Waleson 2011