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
"Don't ask a mutt to strut like a show girl," she warbles in a chanteuse whisper that bursts into Ethel Merman brass.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Why did I ever take up the profession of a show girl?
From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dorgan, Dick