The term "striptease" was first recorded in 1938, though "stripping", in the sense of women removing clothing to sexually excite men, seems to go back at least 400 years. For example, in Thomas Otway's comedy "The Soldier's Fortune" (1681) a character says: "Be sure they be lewd, drunken, "stripping" whores". Its combination with music seems to be as old. A conclusive description and visualization can be found in the 1720 German translation of the French "La Guerre D'Espagne" (Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1707), where a galant party of high aristocrats and opera singers has resorted to a small château where they entertain themselves with hunting, play and music in a three-day turn: