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
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
