1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli,Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published2001, page79:
I had never seen anecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.
2004, Chrysti the Wordsmith,Verbivore's Feast: A Banquet of Word and Phrase Origins, Farcountry Press, page107:
However, the Queen ofEcdysiasts, 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?"
