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old face noun a chorus dancer whose long tenure makes her unmarketable US- [T]here are thousands of kids who pound out the soles of their aching feet for five or six years, then discover that at 21 or 22 they’ve been around the Stem so long the managers call them “old faces” and they no longer can get work. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 140, 1948
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