chorus girl
Americannoun
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
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
Stallone became a circus trapeze artist in the 1930s, and hairdresser and a nightclub chorus girl.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2020
Surely as good as a stuck-up chorus girl, who couldn't dance and couldn't act and couldn't even sing sometimes.
From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton
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