chorine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chorine
Example Sentences
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No one was remotely surprised when Rob Marshall’s flashily entertaining Broadway-to-Hollywood adaptation won six Oscars, including best picture and best supporting actress for Catherine Zeta-Jones, so riveting as the murderous chorine Velma Kelly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
Prinz hired me anyway to appear as a chorine in ‘The Hard Way’ with Joan Leslie and Ida Lupino.
From Fox News ● Jul. 30, 2020
It tells the mostly true story of Fanny Brice, who started out as a Ziegfeld Follies chorine and became a powerful force in early-20th-century vaudeville and a paragon of female independence.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2018
No years as a musical theatre chorine for Clint Planer.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2017
By contrast, Crawford started as a chorine and her range of performance wasn’t large; her theatrical craft was modest but her onscreen presence and projection of character was—and, in the rewatching, is—colossal.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2017
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