posing strap
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Noun
[edit]posing strap (plural posing straps)
- A thong-style undergarment worn by male bodybuilders or models for physique magazines.
- Synonym: posing pouch
- 1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
- […] Lou was a respectful reader of the boy books that were emerging then, those magazines of black-and-white photos of teenagers with shaved chests, sucked-in if unexercised stomachs, and cloth posing-straps who stood on a dais silhouetted against a sunburst of seamless paper.