ecdysiast
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All attention was focused overhead as the ermine ecdysiast began to toy with the clasps securing one veil.
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- noun A striptease artist.
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- Private booths were arranged along one wall with the appearance of caves in a tawny bluff; opposite was a bar and a stage, on which a shapely ecdysiast was going through her contortions in a bored fashion. — The Long Way Home
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All attention was focused overhead as the ermine ecdysiast began to toy with the clasps securing one veil.
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The two decades mentioned saw articles and books by H.L. Mencken, who reflected a modern, mature view of language (and who coined the word ecdysiast for
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1 -
She said, well, I'm a ecdysiast.
— CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2002 -
I said, ecdysiast?
— CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2002
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- From ecdysis.
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/ (ĕk-dĭzˈē-ăstˌ, -əst)/
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