dancing girl

noun

a professional female dancer who dances to entertain customers at a club, theatre, etc

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Words nearby dancing girl

dance to another tune, dancette, dancewear, dancey, dancical, dancing girl, dancing-lady orchid, dancing step, dancy, D&C, D&D

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Example sentences from the Web for dancing girl

The dancing-girl and the singing-girl correspond to the geisha and Maiko of Japan.
Travels in the Far East|Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
At Forli, in the course of this excursion, Casanova visited the dancing-girl Binetti.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete|Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Sometimes Zahara was proud of her descent from a dancing-girl of Kenneh.
Tales of Chinatown|Sax Rohmer
The gamelan played; a dancing-girl entered and began to dance.
Letters of a Javanese Princess|Raden Adjeng Kartini

He came in the morning, pale and red-eyed, and hung flowers at the dancing-girl's door.
Thais|Anatole France

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