1. A performer in a figure-dance.
1753. A. Murphy, Gray’s-Inn Journal, No. 25. They all had the Honour of kissing a Figure Dancer.
1779. Sheridan, Critic, I. i. With foreign emissaries and French spies, for aught I know, disguised like fiddlers and figure dancers?
1819. E. S. Barrett, Metropolis, II. 202. The figure dancers, flower girls, characters, or stupid dominos hand-barrowed, half dozing, off in their chairs, whilst enquiring spies listened to the address!
2. slang. (See quot.)
1796. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Figure Dancer, one who alters figures on bank notes, converting tens to hundreds.
