Meaning

3 senses
  1. A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans.

    a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness

  2. A stage performance or striptease in which a female entertainer disrobes while dancing with large hand-held fans that are alternately used to conceal and provide glimpses of her erogenous body regions.

  3. (broadly, figuratively, idiomatic)The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information.

Forms

plural: fan dances

Synonyms

1 synonyms
incremental disclosure of information:dance of the seven veils

Word family

1 related words
Derivedfan dancer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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