show girl

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

Miming the seven suitors of Belle Poitrine, the All-America show girl, Sid Caesar is the most brilliantly versatile playboy of the Western world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young Rebayte, Jr. had a stack, A show girl he did wed, She married him behind his back, For she had turned his head!

From Why They Married by Flagg, James Montgomery