'ancillary figure' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or thing that provides support to a main figure, person, or idea. For example: "The ancillary figure in the plot of the novel serves as an example of moral ambivalence."
Where the play really burns into life is in the supposedly ancillary figures.
Meanwhile, the board majority makes room for an eclectic array of ancillary figures from the revolutionary period, such as Charles Carroll and Jonathan Trumbull.
In the furor that surrounded the shooting and focused all attention on the event itself, some ancillary figures were either hidden or overlooked.
The predominant sculptural style of the innumerable images (primarily of the Buddha, with ancillary figures) is a synthesis of various foreign influences including Persian, Byzantine, and Greek but ultimately derived from the Buddhist art of India.
Its lack of scale and perspective – the Virgin and Child are twice the size they should be while the ancillary figures are stiffly jointed – suggest not so much a falling off in technique as a baffling return to a medieval way of painting the world.
If you don't happen to be a fan of toxic attack ads, especially ones directed at ancillary campaign figures, today's Los Angeles Times holds some depressing news.
To compare apples to apples by including the sale of miles, then, an ancillary fee revenue figure for 2010 might exceed $11 billion, consumer analysts said.
A few students, real brownnosey types, might follow through with these ancillary assignments because they figure that doing so might help them get into college.
The Transportation Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics used to struggle to compile comprehensive figures for overall airline ancillary revenue, but except for quarterly figures it supplies in just two big categories — checked bag fees and itinerary change fees — the agency has basically given up on the big picture.
