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dancerette

dancerette noun: a female dancer.

Noun

dancerette (plural dancerettes)

  1. A female dancer.
    • The dance program at Caledonia Saturday evening lasted but one hour and 51 minutes. As one dancerette expressed it “They’re chintsey.”1910 August 15, Public Opinion, volume X, number 117, Chambersburg, Pa., columns 2–3
    • I was a dancerette back in the day.[…]We dancerettes never got to see whether we won or they did — we were told the outcome.2012 September 30, Christy L Solomon, “Stop the coddling”, in The Sunday Tampa Tribune, 118th year, number 38, Tampa, Fla., page 3
    Synonyms:
    danceress

Synonyms of dancerette

Forms of dancerette

pluraldancerettes

Origin of dancerette

From dancer + -ette.

Questions about dancerette

What does dancerette mean?
Dancerette means a female dancer.
What part of speech is dancerette?
Dancerette is a noun.
What is the plural of dancerette?
The plural of dancerette is dancerettes.

Words near dancerette in the dictionary

  1. dancercised
  2. dancercises
  3. dancercising
  4. danceress
  5. danceresses
  6. dancerette
  7. dancerettes
  8. danceries
  9. dancerliness
  10. dancerly
  11. dancers

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