Meaning of ecdysiast | Babel Free
ɛkˈdɪz.i.æstEquivalents
Examples
“I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end⟳ she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat⟳.”
“However, the Queen of Ecdysiasts, Gypsy Rose Lee, was not amused. In a 1940 interview, she leveled her guns against Mencken: "Ecdysiast, he calls me! Why, the man... has been reading books! Dictionaries! We don't wear⟳ feathers and molt them off... What does he know⟳ about stripping?"”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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