From the stage of Boston's Pilgrim Theater, a seedy burlesque house in the city's newly designated "Combat Zone" for sex films and ecdysiast exhibitions, a shapely,.
And this: When a stripteaser asked him to coin a "more dignified" term for her profession, Mencken suggested 'ecdysiast,' meaning 'one who sheds'.
They were unashamed students of the art of the belly dancer, devotees of the deft ecdysiast who can twirl her breasts in opposite directions.