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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Fruit dancer

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When she came to America, she was never able to shed her image as a fruit dancer.

May I ask what "fruit dancer" means?
  

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Try google at images for Carmen Miranda, and I think your question will be answered.

  • Try google at images for Carmen Miranda, and I think your question will be answered.
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Try google at images for Carmen Miranda, and I think your question will be answered.
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Does "fruit dancer" means a dancer with fruits on the head?

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Could I ask for details?
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All her movies were musicals, in the heyday of the Hollywood musical, the 1940's, and in those musicals that's how she always performed, singing and dancing, wearing a hat piled high with artificial fruit (apparently Hollywood's vision of what a female South American fruit vendor looked like). Even in non-musical scenes, she was always dressed like this. She was multi-talented, able to sing and
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Thank you very much for the details, Anonymous. Is Carmen Miranda the only person who is called a fruit dancer?
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I think I see what you're getting at Hublot. You're wondering if the rather unusual phrase "a fruit dancer" can have any other connotation or meaning in English. No. When I first read your post, without even clicking on the link I knew who this was, Carmen Miranda. In the English language, the phrase "a fruit dancer" means only one thing, Carmen Miranda.
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Thank you, Anonymous.

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