strip-teasern.
Originally U.S.
A performer of strip-tease; an ecdysiast or stripper.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > striptease artist
teaser1929
stripper1930
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strippeuse1939
ecdysiast1940
strip-teaseuse1941
peeler1942
stripteuse1942
strip-tease artist1947
exotic1954
split beaver1972
1930 Variety 26 Nov. 40/2 The main b[ox] o[ffice] lure is the girls, those known as ‘strip teasers’.
1935 E. E. Cummings Let. 29 Jan. (1969) 135 I recommend the Irving Place Burlesk (stripteasers in excelsis).
1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 71/1 There was not a pinpoint of light anywhere, not a glimmer from the long line of caravans parked round the square, where the Parisian Strip-teasers slept beside their watchful mothers.
1960 News Chron. 25 Feb. 5/8 They got Trixie Kent, our strip~teaser, to autograph one or two scraps of clothing.
1982 Washington Post 22 Jan. (Weekend section) 47/1 Despite its new soigné image, the essential pulse of Baltimore remains the rhythmic tic-toc of a stripteaser's tassels.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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