Definition of "dancing-girl" [dancing-girl]

• A female dancer (noun)

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• "At a time when, riding his hunch, he was getting half a million for half a sack of flour, it was nothing less than insanity to give twenty whole sacks to a dancing-girl and a priest."
• "My late father-in-law, old Morrison, was telling him to spread it thin, because it cost a thousand pounds a bottle, and Rudi said he had gallons of the stuff, and when it had all been applied they would get Narreeman, the Afghan dancing-girl, to ravish me and throw me out into the snow."
• "I came back to England laden down like a dancing-girl with stuff I could never wear: bracelets and toe rings and anklets."