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fricatrice en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɹɪkətɹɪs/

Etymology

Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare (“to rub”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A lewd woman or prostitute.
   • One can imagine an ideal servent who serves out of pure love for his master, just as one can an ideal rustic who remains a ditcher from a love of nature, or an ideal fricatrice who spreads her legs a dozen times a night from a love of copulation. But one never encounters these fabulous creatures in reality. 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 35, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
   • And am asham'd you' should ha' no more forehead / Than thus to be the patron, or St. George, To a lewd harlot, a base fricatrice, / A female devil, in a male outside 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 498:
2. (obsolete) A woman who masturbates.

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tribade