chorus girl
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chorus girl
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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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
“I was a chorus girl with a big skirt and a big wig, singing way too loud,” she recalled in a 1990 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2022
A U.S. diplomat escorts a chorus girl mistakenly invited to Paris on behalf of American theater.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2021
To the chorus girl it means from $18 to $25 a week, and if she be particularly clever perhaps a little more.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
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