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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions ecdysiast noun  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 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?" Etymology: Coined by w:H. L. Mencken, H. L. Mencken from ekdysis (on the model of enthusiast etc.).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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