danseuse [post-dating 1878 --> 1926]

[victor steinbok]

This is nothing particularly earth-shattering, but the OED quotations
terminate in the 1870s.

http://goo.gl/1BCou
Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 133, 5 June 1926
The World Greatest Dancer. Page 9 (last graf)

> Miss Thursa Rogers, who has made a good reputation in London and Paris as a
> premiere danseuse, lived in Wellington until six years ago.
>

VS-)

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