The two decades mentioned saw articles and books by H.L. Mencken, who reflected a modern, mature view of language (and who coined the word ecdysiast for.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1] Reference

Considering that the roots of the word "ecdysiast" have to do with molting, this is particularly charming to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Return of Burlesque] Reference

Mencken is the one who coined the word 'ecdysiast' in her honor, Abbott says.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The "ebony-haired ecdysiast" was irresistible copy, especially when it came to her sixty-inch chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Stories Never Told] Reference

All attention was focused overhead as the ermine ecdysiast began to toy with the clasps securing one veil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference

Charmed by his reply Georgia Sothern the stripper became Georgia Sothern the ecdysiast and she promoted both the profession, as well as the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgia Sothern, H.L.Mencken, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Ecdysiasm] Reference

Who ever thought the music that's supposed to signal it's time to take off your shirt, line up with the gym bunnies and unleash your inner ecdysiast would be played for CHILDREN.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recycling] Reference

Private booths were arranged along one wall with the appearance of caves in a tawny bluff; opposite was a bar and a stage, on which a shapely ecdysiast was going through her contortions in a bored fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Way Home]

In any case, the turgid screen adaptation of "The Time Traveler's Wife" stars Eric Bana as Henry, the accidental ecdysiast, and Rachel McAdams as Clare, the long-suffering but patient-as-Penelope title character.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife'] Reference

Evie Lovelle, with long dark hair and a "corps sublime," is an ecdysiast in the classic Gypsy Rose Lee tradition, wearing hour-glass corsets, whipping off her long gloves à la Rita Hayworth in "Gilda," and playing hide-and-seek behind huge feather fans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burlesque Is Back in Paris] Reference

Her namesake would have approved of this blend of the academic and the ecdysiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

One ecdysiast who calls herself Carmen said, "He was the perfect gentleman and very polite.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bossip] Reference

Benanti's Louise blossomed from wallflower to burlesque beauty, she clarified that she was no mere stripper but an ecdysiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

(Mills joined her on stage at Boston's exquisitely named Pilgrim Theater, which specialized in what Time magazine primly called "ecdysiast exhibitions"; this was after he had a fracas with Ms. Foxe that provoked her to jump into Washington's Tidal Basin across from the memorial to Thomas Jefferson, who really believed that democracies could behave rationally), he decided to seek the Democrats '1972 presidential nomination.    From Wordnik.com.  [timesunion.com: Local Breaking News] Reference

I said, ecdysiast?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2002] Reference

This word produces...ecdysiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgia Sothern, H.L.Mencken, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Ecdysiasm] Reference

She said, well, I'm a ecdysiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2002] Reference

No, no, she says, ecdysiast is a stripper, she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2002] Reference