dance hostess

noun

A woman whose occupation is to dance with male clients for a price per dance.

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Meanings

noundance hostess (plural dance hostesses)

plural dance hostesses

  1. A woman whose occupation is to dance with male clients for a price per dance.

    Another of Broadway's most characteristic features is the dance hostess, who works in any one of the six or seven taxi-dance halls that occupy six or seven second floors in buildings on or near the Main Stem.

    1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87
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APA

dance hostess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dance%20hostess

MLA

“dance hostess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dance%20hostess. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dance hostess,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dance%20hostess.

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