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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