Sentence examples for ecdysiast from inspiring English sources
noun
An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper.
How, one asks, can anybody who gyrates like an ecdysiast claim to be a Christian?
A sylvan foursome has gone terribly wrong, and the surviving ecdysiast hastens to Kyle's cabin and begs for refuge.
Matthew McConaughey took best supporting actor, for his work as a Texas lawyer in "Bernie" and a Floridian ecdysiast in "Magic Mike".
As Laura Benanti's Louise blossomed from wallflower to burlesque beauty, she clarified that she was no mere stripper but an ecdysiast.
Strips is an acronym apparently coined by a bump-and-grind ecdysiast enthusiast at Treasury for "Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities".
So where to take in the torch-song chanteuse, the chair-straddling ecdysiast, the ladies of the night dressed up in drag?
For nostalgists of the lost art of slow undressing in a spotlight, there are glossies of statuesque ecdysiasts who once top-lined the burlesque circuit with names like Blaze, Dawn, and Gypsy Rose.
In the '20s and '30s, the Globe was a bustling Vaudeville theater with leering, popeyed, baggy-pants comics and peroxide-blond ecdysiasts.
Lara Pulver charts Louise's growth from shy wallflower to coldly calculating stripper with great skill and there is assured support from Scarlet Roche as a cartwheeling Baby June and Louise Gold, Julie Legrand and Anita Louise Combe as a trio of hardened ecdysiasts.
Last year, two famous ecdysiasts, the word Mencken coined for striptease artists, Lili St. Cyr and Ann Corio, died.
The Casanova Club, a den of shady characters in the film, is on Dorotheergasse (6-8), and judging by the photos of bosomy, undraped ecdysiasts out front, the show may be the same as in Greene's day.
