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/ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst/ · noun
(uncommon) An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper..
I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.
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?"
Use ecdysiast when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ecdysiast means (uncommon) An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper..
Common synonyms include exotic dancer, stripper, peeler, stripteaser.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.
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