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transvestite Definition

trans·ves·tite (trans vestīt′, tranz-)

noun

a person who derives sexual pleasure from dressing in the clothes of the opposite sex

Etymology: < trans- + L vestire, to clothe (see vest) + -ite

transvestite Related Forms
trans·ves·tism′ (--tiz′əm) noun or trans·ves·ti·tism′--tə tiz′əm
transvestite Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • include: There are many talked about features at Privilege including, Transvestites on trapezes, live sex on the stage, and fire breathing dwarfs.
  • play: Cillian Murphy: Dressed for success Published: 06 January 2006 Cillian Murphy plays a transvestite in Neil Jordan's new movie.
  • become: Let's hope Mel Gibson doesn't become a transvestite in his next movie!

Preposition: on

  • trapeze: There are many talked about features at Privilege including, Transvestites on trapezes, live sex on the stage, and fire breathing dwarfs.

Adjective modifier

  • many: What is, perhaps, more interesting is the general image given out by many transvestites.
  • heterosexual: When that constitution was changed to include all transvestites, whatever their sexuality, another organization was formed specifically for heterosexual transvestites.
  • Many: Many transvestites say they started ' dressing ' around the age of seven, or in puberty.
  • German: He's been out there since Thursday boozing with his workmates ( and various German transvestites ).
  • drug-addicted: Show all Was Herman Goering really a drug-addicted transvestite?

Modifies a noun

  • singer: To be honest a transvestite singer singing about toilet love was not going to take you to the top!
  • hooker: On my way to the restaurant I walked past my first transvestite hooker.
  • nail: Sam: transvestite nail technician from Scotland. o /o 30th May: George walks out of the BB house!
  • subject: Since the 1980s, the paintings have primarily explored his own sexual identity through the portrayal of homoerotic and transvestite subject matter.
transvestite Quotes

It's about time a transvestite potter won theTurner Prize.

—Perry, Grayson

In fact, they are the classic scapegoats.Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of thetransvestite.

—White, Edmund