Meanings
nounchorine (plural chorines)
plural chorines
- USA female chorus line dancer; a chorus girl.
Their theatrical performances consisted of buxom chorines, weepy soubrettes, vaudeville acts, and a piano-pounding "professor".
1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 401 more example
Apparently she and Stuffy met on one of his trips to Detroit, where she was working as a chorine in the house revue at the Club Palermo […].
2025, Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket, Jonathan Cape, page 58
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nouna woman who dances in a chorus line
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