dancing-girl

Noun

dancing girl (plural dancing girls)

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