DCHP-3

dance-hall girl

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Hist.

in frontier days, a woman employed in a saloon or dance-hall, ostensibly to serve as a dancing partner for male clients.

Quotations

1910
It was the régime of the dance-hall girl. . . .
1926
A dance-hall girl staked him and he applied himself cautiously, grimly, to the business of beating the wheel.
1960
A new and far different type of dance hall girl appeared on the scene in 1866, when Madame Fannie Bendixen brought in the first of the hurdy-gurdy girls. . . .