leg art

leg art (uncountable)

1. (informal) Suggestive pictures of scantily clad young women.

   Synonym: cheesecake

   • 1948, Armed Forces Talk, number 230, page 1:

     At about that time even the tabloid newspapers began to play down ***, crime, and leg art in favor of such great problems as labor and management, the cost of living, and the spread of fascism.

   • 2013, Brett Kiser, The Pin-Up Girls of World War II:

     The legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille never asked his actresses to pose for purposeless leg art.

• Elgart, raglet, gartel, tergal, larget