Antedating of "Striptease"

[Laurence Horn]

The first OED cite for "ecdysiast" is 1940 (Mencken), so we can probably rule out the possibility that "strip tease/teaser" originated as a calque from the Ancient Greek.

LH

On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:18 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:

> Google Books contains an issue of Vanity Fair that uses the expression
> "strip teaser" instead of "strip tease" in August 1929. Only snippets
> are displayed, but there is a snippet showing the date and the word
> "strip". Should be verified on paper, I think.
>
> Magazine: Vanity Fair
> Date: August 1929 (Visible in snippet)
> Page: 51 (Visible in snippet; hard to read)
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=owQTAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=teaser
>
> [Begin extracted text]
> this runway and across the stage the women work laboriously at the
> game of shimmy and the "strip teaser." The latter is the routine lure
> of the principal women. Occasionally capable and well-shaped dancers
> like "Peaches" of Laffin Thru or Anne Corio of Girls in Blue add some
> art of execution and even of mock-modest reticence to the business of
> [End extracted text]
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> "Died" is in the original.
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>> Fred Shapiro
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>> On Apr 11, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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>>> striptease (OED 1936)
>>>
>>> 1931 _Billboard_ 6 June 28 (Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive)  The died-in-the-wool
>> Wonder if that's an eggcorn or a simple typo.
>>
>> LH
>>
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>>> burlesque fan ... is fed up on the "strip tease racket".
>>>
>>> Fred Shapiro
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