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English
Etymology
Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare (“to rub”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fricatrice (plural fricatrices)
- (obsolete) A lewd woman or prostitute.
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 Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 498: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
- (obsolete) A woman who masturbates.
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