How, one asks, can anybody who gyrates like an ecdysiast claim to be a Christian?
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Another name for a stripper is an ecdysiastic dancer or simply an ecdysiast.
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Juggling is all very well, I find, in small doses, on a variety bill with a singer or an ecdysiast to come.
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The third and final ecdysiast is Larry Slade, 32, who once worked as a bodyguard for the pianist Liberace.
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What is it like to play an ecdysiast, after Miss Georgina?
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She established her reputation as an ecdysiast with a long tenure at the Gaiety burlesque house in Montreal.
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Stripper: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, usually to music, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a stripper or exotic dancer.
An erotic dancer who removes their clothes as a form of entertainment; a stripper