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Sex appeal   /sɛks əpˈil/   Listen
Sex appeal

noun
1.
Attractiveness to the opposite sex.  Synonyms: desirability, desirableness, oomph.






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... the Vatican (Visconti, Mus. Pio-Clem. iv, 29), where it is performed by ten figures, five Finns and five Bacchanals, but their movements, though extremely lively and energetic, are not marked by any particular indelicacy. Many ancient authors and scholiasts have commented upon the looseness and sex appeal of this dance. Meursius, Orchest., article Kordax, has collected the majority of passages in the classical writers, bearing upon this subject, but from this disorderly collection it is impossible to arrive at any definite description of the cordax. The article in Coelius Rhodiginus. Var. Lect. ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter



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