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† danceress Obs., exc. as nonce-wd.
[a. OF. danceresse, danseresse, now supplanted by danseuse: see -ess.]
A female dancer.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. ix. 4 Be thou not customable with a daunseresse [1382 a leperesse or tumbler], neither here thou hir. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. xli. 62 b/1 The moost excellent Jongleresse or Dawnceresse that was in the cytee of Anthyoche. 1633Prynne Histrio-Mastix v. viii. 260 What doth a Danceresse doe? She impudently uncovers her head. 1855Househ. Words XI. 57 A cavalier may..offer..a glass now and then to his danceress. |