fricatrice

English

Etymology

Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare (to rub).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪkətɹɪs/

Noun

fricatrice (plural fricatrices)

  1. (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[iam] 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
    • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 35, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
      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.
  2. (obsolete) A woman who masturbates.

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