dancing girl

noun

A female dancer.

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Meanings

noundancing girl (plural dancing girls)

plural dancing girls · alternative dancing-girl

  1. A female dancer.

    Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.

    1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85

Translations

Ancient Greek ὀρχηστρίς
  • ὀρχηστρίς (orkhēstrís)female dancer
Esperanto dancistino
  • dancistinofemale dancer
Latin saltātrix
  • saltātrixfemale dancer
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Chicago

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