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
When he fled to Germany, just before World War II, he took with him a Manchester show girl, whom he married, although he had left a wife in England.
From Time Magazine Archive
I did not enter the contest, for I am not a chorus girl; I am a show girl, if you please.
From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by McGaffey, Kenneth
