ecdysiast

The full work consists of those videos - 24 in total - screened simultaneously with "Ecdysiast."

Once he asked me what an ecdysiast was, pronouncing the word perfectly but carefully, as if it were fragile.

It rang above the low music and cultivated chatter; even the ecdysiast paused an instant on her stage.

Another name for a stripper is an ecdysiastic dancer or simply an ecdysiast.

Ecdysiast is a euphemism for a striptease artist.

"Many graduates of my generation," he wrote, "had our morals corrupted by visits to see a favorite ecdysiast."

"Sonny boy," cracked the noted ecdysiast, "are you telling Sally Rand how to hold a balloon?"

She was relieved that Vaygay had not appeared with Meera, the ecdysiast.

Peering up against the glare, Fiben couldn't see that the ecdysiast had done anything new and spectacular-at least no more so than before.

"Presenting the first ecdysiast in the history of Hesporite: the one, the only, the fabulous Butterfly Delight!"

Although the floor show was going on-a remarkably shapely ecdysiast was working down toward her last string of beads-he drew the booth's curtain.

"GYPSY" is less the story of the metamorphosis of a star ecdysiast than a psychological study of her demonic mother.

Ann Corio (November 29, 1909 - March 1, 1999) was a prominent American burlesque ecdysiast and actress.

He leads the revels and directs the rituals - our daughter Elise is a Novice Ecdysiast under him and she talks of having a vocation.

The species epithet is derived from Greek ecdysiast (meaning one who sheds layers) and refers to the near complete loss of all wing scales during adult emergence.

Trying to describe what Gypsy was (a "high-class" stripper), H. L. Mencken coined the term ecdysiast.

The video is called "Ecdysiast," a term said to have been coined by H. L. Mencken to describe Gypsy Rose Lee.

The unconventional design also forces one to walk around the apartment, with the view revealing itself bit by bit, like an old-school ecdysiast teasing the audience with tantalizing glimpses.

The Stripper and the Governor "Blaze" is a tragicomedy about the relationship between the flamboyant red-haired ecdysiast and the married Governor, played by Mr. Newman.

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."

And the ecdysiast is right: to get that audience - particularly after repeated productions of the Shakespearean standards that made the festival's name - you gotta have that gimmick, or, indeed, many gimmicks.

Her husband, rich Robert Poore-Moody, is the angel of Dolly Divine, the celebrated ecdysiast, who is raising money for a striptease production of Shakespeare, entitled "Bardic Follies."

After her film and television career began to wane, Darcel, aged 41, became an ecdysiast (stripper), appearing in West Coast theatres in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Oakland, and Los Angeles.

H. L. Mencken is credited with coining the word "ecdysiast" - from "ecdysis", meaning "to molt" - in response to a request from Gypsy Rose Lee for a "more dignified" way to refer to her profession.

He accommodated her with his coinage of ecdysiast, rooted in ecdysis, "the act of molting," which Gypsy Rose Lee dismissed with "We don't wear feathers and molt them off. . .what does he know about stripping?"