exotic dancer的词源

英文词源

exotic (adj.): 1590s, "belonging to another country," from Middle French exotique (16c.) and directly from Latin exoticus, from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," from exo "outside" (see exo-). Sense of "unusual, strange" in English first recorded 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is attested by 1942, American English.
Exotic dancer in the nightclub trade means a girl who goes through a few motions while wearing as few clothes as the cops will allow in the city where she is working ... ["Life," May 5, 1947]
As a noun from 1640s, "anything of foreign origin," originally plants.
Mata Hari: stage name taken by exotic dancer Margaretha Gertruida Zelle (1876-1917), from Malay mata "eye" + hari "day, dawn."
pasties (n.): "adhesive patches worn over the nipples by exotic dancers," 1957, plural diminutive from paste (v.).

直译即外国舞者，通常指带有异域风情的性感舞，如肚皮舞。后用来指脱衣舞女。

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