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dance-hall girl 
Hist. in frontier days, a woman employed in a saloon or dance-hall, ostensibly to serve as a dancing partner for male clients.
- 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. . . .
- 1910 It was the régime of the dance-hall girl. . . .