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gallerina

noun

Etymology

Blend of gallery + ballerina.

  1. borrowed from ballerina
  2. compounded as gallerina — “gallery + ballerina”

Definitions

  1. A fashionable art gallery employee, usually female.

    • The heroine of Danielle Ganek’s captivatingly titled novel “Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him” is a gallerina.
    • But Charlotte, a prim gallerina whose sole aspiration consists of locking down a Wasp husband, remained a bridge to the past.

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