dancing girl

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A female professional dancer. See alma, ghawazee, nautch-girl, etc.
• noun plural [Used as a singular.] The Mantisia saltatoria, a greenhouse-plant of the natural order Zingiberaceæ, a native of the East Indies. Its singular purple and yellow flowers have some resemblance to a ballet-dancer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A female dancer