dancerette

English

Etymology

From dancer +‎ -ette.

Noun

dancerette (plural dancerettes)

1. A female dancer.
   • 1910 August 15, Public Opinion, volume X, number 117, Chambersburg, Pa., columns 2–3:

     The dance program at Caledonia Saturday evening lasted but one hour and 51 minutes. As one dancerette expressed it “They’re chintsey.”

   • 2012 September 30, Christy L Solomon, “Stop the coddling”, in The Sunday Tampa Tribune, 118th year, number 38, Tampa, Fla., page 3:

     I was a dancerette back in the day. […] We dancerettes never got to see whether we won or they did — we were told the outcome.

   • 2013 August 25, Tom Jackson, “Yo, freshmen: These four years will fly”, in The Pasco Tribune, page 1, column 1:

     So, when his mother — a debutante dancerette who ran with the Very Coolest Kids in a high school near Temple Terrace at the dawn of the disco era — attempted to warn him against exhibiting evidence of lameness, he cut her off.

Synonyms

• danceress