dancing girl
Britishnoun
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Episodes of levity recur throughout Adams’s music; he likened the ironically effervescent British Dancing Girl aria in “The Death of Klinghoffer” to the porter scene in “Macbeth.”
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There was a dancing girl in the marketplace.
From Literature
Her mind flashed to the dancing girl in the marketplace.
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So she nodded good-bye to the woodsman, and with one last glance at the dancing girl, headed back into the company of the crowd.
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At the very edge of the square was the dancing girl, and standing a few feet away was the woodsman Hazel had seen earlier that day.
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