fan dance

== English == === Alternative forms === fan-dance === Pronunciation === === Noun === fan dance (plural fan dances) (performing arts) A dance performance incorporating the artful use of fans. (performing arts) 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. 2008 Feb. 18, Amanda Fortini, "Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe in "The Last Sitting"," nymag.com (retrieved 28 May 2013): In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe: . . . Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. (idiomatic, figurative, by extension) The incremental disclosure of tantalizing bits of information. ==== Synonyms ==== (incremental disclosure of information): dance of the seven veils ==== Derived terms ==== fan dancer === Verb === fan dance (third-person singular simple present fan dances, present participle fan dancing, simple past and past participle fan danced) To perform such a dance. === References === “fan dance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.