female impersonator
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[edit]Noun
[edit]female impersonator (plural female impersonators)
- (performing arts) A male entertainer who performs cross-dressed as a woman.
- Coordinate term: male impersonator
- 1908, O. Henry, “The Hand That Riles The World”, in The Gentle Grafter:
- "About the only job left that a woman can beat a man in is female impersonator in vaudeville."
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- It was Gerald converted me to be a true corsetlover when I was female impersonator in the High School play Vice Versa.
- 2009 June 3, William Grimes, “Danny La Rue, Female Impersonator, Dies at 81”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 October 2015:
- Danny La Rue, a female impersonator who became one of the highest-paid performers on the British stage by bringing sophistication and spectacle to a form of entertainment previously regarded as dubious, died at his home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, on Sunday.
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[edit]- “female impersonator”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.