[f. STRIP v.1 + -ING2.] That strips, in senses of the verb.
1681. Otway, Soldier’s Fort., I. i. (1683), 6. Be sure that they be lew’d, drunken, stripping Whores.
1723. Addison, Guardian, No. 118, ¶ 3. At a late meeting of the stripping Ladies,… it was resolved for the future to lay the modesty-piece wholly aside.
1809. Mary Titherington, Diary, in Mem. (1819), 91. In the course of Christian experience we pass through such stripping times, that the work of God [etc.].
1913. Masefield, in Engl. Rev., Dec., 1. Till with a stripping crash the tree goes down.
