Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chorus girl.
Wiktionary
- n. A female chorus line dancer; a chorus girl.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a woman who dances in a chorus line.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman who dances in a chorus line
Etymologies
- chor(us) + -ine1.
Examples
“Early on, she was a sassy, brassy, tough dancer/chorine type, then as she became a star her image got softer.”
“I rented this because Joyce Compton has a supporting role as a chorine who is improbably paired in a romantic duo with that limp-wristed classic movie icon, Franklin Pangborn.”
“Lance, as I said on FB, your relative fits the "chorine with a heart of gold" literary trope perfectly.”
From Bohemia to the battlefields and back again, our dainty heroine describes her adventures
“As two very different ingénues battle it out for the lead, a brassy veteran chorine (Megan Hilty, a true Broadway veteran) and a newbie from Iowa with heart (American Idol's Katharine McPhee), Smash at times evokes Bob Fosse's classic All That Jazz in its gimlet-eyed, gamy yet irrepressibly fabulous and tuneful valentine to the business of show biz.”
Monday TV in Review: Smash's Opening Night, Plus House, Castle, and More
“Latrines and showers are damaged, fecal matter is running in rivulets through the camps, and in the worst possible scenario, chorine levels in water distribution systems are running low or are non-existent.”
The Huffington Post: Georgianne Nienaber: Flooding Scours the Whitewash From Haiti Aid Efforts
“She turns out to be an anonymous chorine, dressed in a red version of Frankie's and Rose's costuming, setting up the transition of "Frankie" into the opening of "Blossom Got Kissed.”
“The smell of french fries, ketchup and chorine - the Enlisted Pool at AFSOUTH...”
“It's softer on the skin, and you don't have that chorine smell," Mr. Lister said.”
The Wall Street Journal: An Expansion Project in Washington State
“We do use chorine in the fountain and don't have any grunge problems.”
“With al Qaeda still focused on hitting high impact U.S. targets, with terrorists in Iraq using now chlorine gas in car bomb attacks and with four 150 pound canisters of chorine stolen from water treatment plants in Texas and California.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chorine’.
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Dead (or dying) English Words
Inspired by the an old New York Times article and the Dictionary of Dying Danish Words list here on Wordie.
chorine, terpsichore, motorcar, motoring, centigrade, maven, tautology, pleonasm, contrariwise, spatchcock, mascaron, miasma and 29 more...
sionnach Chorine - isn't she the girl who sits in the same row as that crazy woman Fuorine? Jul 19, 2009
john “Lena was farmed out fairly frequently and had to endure occasional racist slurs, beatings for minor infractions and schoolgirl mockery: she was called “little yellow bastard�? because of her supposedly “white daddy.�? At age 16, to the disapproval of some family members, she became a chorine at the celebrated Cotton Club, where Ethel Waters singing “Stormy Weather�? had a lasting effect on her.�?
The New York Times, No Prisoner of Love, by John Simon, July 16, 2009 Jul 19, 2009