chorus girl
Americannoun
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chorus girls
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of chorus girl
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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At the end of the musical “Chicago,” Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who has been charged with murdering her lover, is declared not guilty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Stevens won a Golden Globe for her 1959 film debut as a chorus girl in Say One for Me, which also starred Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023
And did it really end, as she wrote in her memoir, when Mr. Kline collided with “a chorus girl in Boston while he was doing ‘On the Twentieth Century.’”
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
In that production, she played a hard-living former chorus girl opposite film stars Myrna Loy, Kim Hunter and Alexis Smith.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2020
Alrik's young spouse was, wonder of wonders, a transplanted New York chorus girl.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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