Definition of "opera-girls" [opera-girls]

• The plant Mantisia saltatoria. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Men are brawling and talking loud about politics, opera-girls, horse-racing, the atrocious tyranny of the committee: — bearing this sacred secret about him, he enters into this brawl."
• "The book is in a way one of purpose, inculcating the danger of wooing opera-girls, and instancing it with three very weak young men, another duke, a rich young _parvenu_, and a musician."
• "He let his chances slip by as he lay in the lap of opera-girls, or snivelled at the knees of priests asking pardon; and the blood of heroes, and the devotedness of honest hearts, and endurance, courage, fidelity, were all spent for him in vain."