单词 | chorine |
释义 | chorinen. Originally and chiefly U.S. A chorus-girl. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > chorus-girl monkey1871 follies1874 Gaiety girl1886 chorus-girl1894 pony1908 chorine1922 Ziegfeld girl1932 les girls1936 terp1937 1922 Moving Pict. Stories 28 July 26/1 Pearls continue to be popular, especially with soubrettes and even chorines. 1927 in Amer. Speech (1928) 3 368 The chorines of a cabaret. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 91/3 They [sc. short stories] depict..the philosophy of a ‘chorine’. 1948 John o' London's Weekly 10 Dec. 597/2 The ‘Set of Twelve Pretty Girls’ [cigarette cards] disappeared, fat chorines gave way to ‘Life on Board a Man-o'-War’. 1958 Times 2 Dec. 14/3 The big setpieces are more elaborate than anything since Busby Berkeley last piled hundreds of Hollywood chorines on a 50 ft. birthday cake. 1969 New Yorker 14 June 4/1 A dancer..is befriended by a chorine named Joan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922 |
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