ecdysiast
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/
ecdysiast (plural ecdysiasts)
- An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
- I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.
- 2004, Chrysti the Wordsmith, Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word and Phrase Origins, Farcountry Press, p. 107:
- However, the Queen of Ecdysiasts, Gypsy Rose Lee, was not amused. In a 1940 interview, she leveled her guns against Mencken: "Ecdysiast, he calls me! Why, the man... has been reading books! Dictionaries! We don't wear feathers and molt them off... What does he know about stripping?"
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin 2001, p. 79:
- (dancer who removes their clothes) exotic dancer, stripper
- German: Stripteasetänzer, Stripteasetänzerin, Stripper, Stripperin, exotischer Tänzer, exotische Tänzerin
- Russian: стриптизёрша
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