Crossword clues for ecdysiast
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stripper \Strip"per\, n.
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
(Agric.) A cow that has nearly stopped giving milk, so that it can be obtained from her only by stripping.
(Agric.) A harvesting machine that strips the seed from the stalks of grain plants.
a solvent or chemical solution used to remove coatings of paint, varnish, lacquer, etc. prior to refinishing a surface.
a person (usually a woman) who strips off her clothes as an entertainment performance; one who does a strip-tease; -- also called an ecdysiast, exotic dancer, or strip-teaser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
H.L. Mencken's invented proper word for "strip-tease artist," 1940, from Greek ekdysis "a stripping or casting off" (used scientifically in English from mid-19c. with reference to serpents shedding skin and molting birds or crustacea), from ekdyein "to put off one's clothes, take off, strip off" (contrasted with endyo "to put on"), from ek (see ex-) + dyein "to enter, to put on."
Wiktionary
n. An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
WordNet
n. a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music [syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser, exotic dancer, peeler]
Usage examples of "ecdysiast".
The ecdysiast lifted with the uppercut, her eyes glazed and she sank to the floor.
Once he asked me what an ecdysiast was, pronouncing the word perfectly but carefully, as if it were fragile.
German ecdysiast has the advantage of a law which permits her to expose every last square centimetre of her person provided she does not wiggle it.
Not the spinning silver-eyed ecdysiasts boasting their unnatural virtual accoutrements or the citizens who lapped up the sight of them.
Through the shattered door the bartender and several of the ecdysiasts were visible.
She began talking with the ecdysiasts between numbers, pretending that she was new in town and looking around for a good club to work in.