She works as an ecdysiast.
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Ecdysiast
//ɛkˈdɪz.i.æst//
Synonyms for "ecdysiast" (36 found)
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I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.
Source: wiktionary
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?"
Source: wiktionary
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