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What is a claque?

What is a claque? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
  2. A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.
  3. A group of fawning admirers.
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Examples
To save the banking system, Greenspan, along with a claque of Republicans like Lindsey Graham, now endorses nationalization.
I am less impressed by the claque of backbenchers whose running gibes whenever a minister is on his feet add little to the discussions.
If you wrap your derision in the flag, you'll always have a claque of bootlickers eager to excuse whatever you do.
I spied a man with pickle-colored hair one night, next to a claque of aspiring models zipped into airtight hip-huggers.
He got clapped and cheered by the audience, or at least by the noisy loyalist claque who are dotted about the hall.
Place the safety rail in the centre of the ladder with the guide claque situated in the left side.

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