chorus girl
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- noun
- /ˈkɔːrəs ɡɜrl/
:
chica de coro
- On the stage, women assumed roles as singers, comediennes, dancers, and chorus girls.
- dancers and chorus girls
- line of chorus girls
- former chorus girl
Examples
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She was a former chorus girl and had legs that wouldn't quit.
Fiction book (1997) -
Hank gives a final wink to the chorus girl and walks on stage.
Fiction book (1990) -
We're gonna take some chorus girls out tonight.
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You ought to open up an art school for chorus girls.
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"Going out with chorus girls in New York City!"
Fiction book (1999) -
"It sounds like something for a chorus girl."
Fiction book (1992) -
Alongside walk chorus girls, clowns, magicians, and a cowboy doing rope tricks.
Fiction book (1990) -
The ad she answered from the job columns was for "Young Women 18 to 67 to be chorus girls for band productions, hotels, and concert halls, Armed Services centers all over the golden West."
Fiction book (1992) -
When he was 14, he joined Dr. Ivory Davis' show, "College Girl Night," a variety show with chorus girls ("twenty of the most beautiful colored girls you ever did see"), a band, and comedy acts.
Fiction book (1992) -
As a chorus girl, she performed colorful dance routines alongside the lead performers.
Synonyms
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5.7
A woman who dances on stage in bright, fancy costumes
A woman who dances with a group in musical shows
How Prominent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a female member of the chorus (a performer who sings/dances in the ensemble) can be inferred from 'chorus' + 'girl'. This follows a common noun + noun compounding pattern found across languages and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words and cultural context of stage productions.
Etymology
Chorus girl comes from the word chorus, meaning a group that sings or dances, and girl for a young woman. It gives the picture of many women standing in a line, singing and dancing on stage, so it means 'a woman who dances as part of the chorus'.