"dancerette" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dancer + -ette.",
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      "form": "dancerettes",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1910 August 15, Public Opinion, volume X, number 117, Chambersburg, Pa., columns 2–3",
          "text": "The dance program at Caledonia Saturday evening lasted but one hour and 51 minutes. As one dancerette expressed it “They’re chintsey.”",
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          "ref": "2012 September 30, Christy L Solomon, “Stop the coddling”, in The Sunday Tampa Tribune, 118th year, number 38, Tampa, Fla., page 3",
          "text": "I was a dancerette back in the day.[…]We dancerettes never got to see whether we won or they did — we were told the outcome.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013 August 25, Tom Jackson, “Yo, freshmen: These four years will fly”, in The Pasco Tribune, page 1, column 1",
          "text": "So, when his mother — a debutante dancerette who ran with the Very Coolest Kids in a high school near Temple Terrace at the dawn of the disco era — attempted to warn him against exhibiting evidence of lameness, he cut her off.",
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        "A female dancer."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "danceress"
        }
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  "word": "dancerette"
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  "etymology_text": "From dancer + -ette.",
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      "form": "dancerettes",
      "tags": [
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          "ref": "1910 August 15, Public Opinion, volume X, number 117, Chambersburg, Pa., columns 2–3",
          "text": "The dance program at Caledonia Saturday evening lasted but one hour and 51 minutes. As one dancerette expressed it “They’re chintsey.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012 September 30, Christy L Solomon, “Stop the coddling”, in The Sunday Tampa Tribune, 118th year, number 38, Tampa, Fla., page 3",
          "text": "I was a dancerette back in the day.[…]We dancerettes never got to see whether we won or they did — we were told the outcome.",
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          "ref": "2013 August 25, Tom Jackson, “Yo, freshmen: These four years will fly”, in The Pasco Tribune, page 1, column 1",
          "text": "So, when his mother — a debutante dancerette who ran with the Very Coolest Kids in a high school near Temple Terrace at the dawn of the disco era — attempted to warn him against exhibiting evidence of lameness, he cut her off.",
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        "A female dancer."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "danceress"
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  "word": "dancerette"
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