show girl
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of show girl
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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"My mum was a show girl, a dancer in the can-can," says Johnson-Thompson.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2021
A New York show girl is discovered by a big movie producer and is taken to Hollywood to become the next big star.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2020
She was a show girl - it figures, because handler Bruce Sussman co-wrote "Copacabana" with Barry Manilow.
From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2010
In a one-man comic population explosion, Sid Caesar plays all seven men in the farcical musical-comedy saga of Belle Poitrine, the all-American show girl originally lampooned in Patrick Dennis' novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in England careers for women, outside those of governess, typist, barmaid, or show girl, which entailed marrying a marquis, were as few as votes.
From With the French in France and Salonika by Davis, Richard Harding
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