ecdysiast
- n a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
- 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.