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transvestism|trɑːnsˈvɛstɪz(ə)m, træns-, -nz-|
[ad. G. transvestismus, f. L. trans trans- + vestīre to clothe: see transvest v., -ism.]
The action of dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex; the condition of having an abnormal desire to dress in the clothes of the opposite sex.
1928[see Eonism]. 1938Spectator 2 Dec. 962/1 So unimportant is the sexual element that transvestism is common in many dance-forms [in Bali] and produces no feeling of embarrassment. 1959Listener 2 July 31/2 The transvestism which is part of the witch/fairy tradition. 1977E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) xix. 199 The most common cases of transvestism are heterosexual men leading otherwise conventional sex lives.
Hence transˈvestist n. and a. = transvestite n. and a.
1944‘M. Innes’ Weight of Evidence viii. 88 One of those portraits of her in page's costume. She must have been what they call a transvestist nowadays. 1959P. Bull I know Face xi. 197, I played the part of Miss Eve Ashley's mother, and the gentleman dressers at Lime Grove were not unpleased by this transvestist carry-on. 1961Guardian 27 Jan. 8/7, I tired of all those transvestist photographs. 1972Daily Tel. 23 Mar. 8/1 He was a clothes fetishist and eventually a transvestist. |