bargirl
nounUK /ˈbɑː(ɹ)ɡɜː(ɹ)l/
Etymology From bar + girl.
1
A woman who works as a hostess in a bar, typically in Southeast Asia and catering to male clients, and who may provide personal entertainment or sexual services.
- San Francisco's local, for example, initially admitted bargirls, but following the public condemnation of bargirls in the late 1930s, the local appointed a committee to investigate the situation.1991, Dorothy Cobble, Dishing It Out, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 126: