chorus girl
Americannoun
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
He played a high-kicking chorus girl under a priest’s tutelage at his all-boy school’s year-end musical with more enthusiasm than most of his classmates.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Stallone became a circus trapeze artist in the 1930s, and hairdresser and a nightclub chorus girl.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2020
The promising son, sharing this atmosphere and even enriching it, yields while at Aldershot before the war to the superficial charm of a chorus girl, and marries her.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth
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