The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dancing \Dan"cing\, p.
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n. from Dance.
Dancing girl, one of the women in the East Indies whose profession is to dance in the temples, or for the amusement of spectators. There are various classes of dancing girls.
Dancing master, a teacher of dancing.
Dancing school, a school or place where dancing is taught.
Wiktionary
n. A female dancer.
Wikipedia
Dancing Girl may refer to:
- Dancing Girl (Mohenjo-daro), a bronze statuette dating around 2500 BC
- "The Dancing Girl" (short story), a 1890 short story by the Japanese writer Mori Ogai
- The Dancing Girl (film), a lost 1915 silent film drama
- Dancing Girl, a 1957 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
- The Dancing Girl, an 1891 play by Henry Arthur Jones
- Dancing Girl (Rabindranath Tagore), a 1905 painting by Rabindranath Tagore
Dancing Girl is a bronze statuette dating around 2500 BC, from the Mohenjo-daro site of the Indus Valley Civilization.
Usage examples of "dancing girl".
Even I began thinking of athletic dancing, idly fantasizing as a dancing girl, that kind of thing.
Rafik's brown lashes swept down across his face as demurely as any dancing girl in his ancestors' harems could have looked.
As far as he is concerned, this fulsomely praised Jenny -- a single glance is enough -- is some shopworn dancing girl.
I could not aspire to a lady of quality, or even the maid of a lady of quality, so I chose a dancing girl from Hangchow.
Aquitainus noted, with a droll roll of the hand still clasping the dancing girl's cloth.
I might as well have been, as far as he cared, only a curvaceous, beautiful barbarian servant in Epidaurus, or, in the keeping of Crusaders, or in the tents of Mongols, a Persian dancing girl.