Antedating of "Strip Tease"

[Fred Shapiro]

strip-tease (OED 1936)

1932 _Oakland Tribune_ 22 June (Newspaperarchive.com)  In the latter, the
burlesque Otto Kahn and his collaborators, decide to call in the Minsky
brothers, and so we have "Carmen" as the Minskys would do it, with a "hot
strip tease" and a candy butcher howling his wares up the aisle.

Fred Shapiro


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