dancing girl

One white officer, for example, loudly proclaimed the typical maharajah as "monstrous and bloated in bulk, hideous and disgusting in appearance" and "decked with earrings and necklaces" like a dancing girl.

Episodes of levity recur throughout Adams’s music; he likened the ironically effervescent British Dancing Girl aria in “The Death of Klinghoffer” to the porter scene in “Macbeth.”

Her mind flashed to the dancing girl in the marketplace.

There was a dancing girl in the marketplace.

So she nodded good-bye to the woodsman, and with one last glance at the dancing girl, headed back into the company of the crowd.