danseuse [post-dating 1878 --> 1926] (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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You can find cites in _Life_ in Google Books in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
_Billboard_ has it up into the 1960s.



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> This is nothing particularly earth-shattering, but the OED quotations
> terminate in the 1870s.
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> http://goo.gl/1BCou
> Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 133, 5 June 1926
> The World Greatest Dancer. Page 9 (last graf)
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> > Miss Thursa Rogers, who has made a good reputation in London and
Paris as a
> > premiere danseuse, lived in Wellington until six years ago.
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