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chorine

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cho·rine  (kôrn, kr-)
n.
A chorus girl.

ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.chorinechorine - a woman who dances in a chorus line
chorus line, chorus - a body of dancers or singers who perform together
dancer, professional dancer, terpsichorean - a performer who dances professionally


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The patterning and expressionist flavor of his style reportedly influenced the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who, in her damned propaganda classic, Triumph of the Will, retained Berkeley's mesmerizing deployment of bodies, but substituted Nazi troops for Broadway chorines.
And yet the road version of Shuffle Along also hosted chorine Josephine Baker, who scored international stardom as a headliner for the Paris Folies Bergere; Hurston followed her first successful reworking of African American folklore in Mules and Men (1935) with Tell My Horse (1938), an examination of the practice of voodoo in Haiti; and Hughes's poem grounds itself specifically in a diasporic consciousness that embraces the Euphrates, the Congo, and the Nile as rivers of Black geography.
Forward Together members rigged up a huge toilet bowl as a supposed monument to the writer, then tore up his books and threw them in the bowl, pouring in chorine after the ripped pages as a supposed disinfectant.
 
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