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Word: ecydysiast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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Usage:

...flesh and blood, but mainly flesh, world of Soho provides a background of night life and street life, strippers and whores (it's pre-Wolfenden and Street Offenses Act). Harvey's treatment of his common-law wife, Sylvia Syms, an ecydysiast who wants to be a singer, heightens the immediacy of the theme of survival of the fittest...

Author: By Jacques Easton, | Title: Expresso Bongo | 7/28/1960 | See Source »

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