fricatrice
/ˈfɹɪkətɹɪs/
fricatrice noun: a lewd woman or prostitute.
Noun
fricatrice (plural fricatrices)
- A lewd woman or prostitute.
- 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 outside1605 (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... - 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...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,
- A woman who masturbates.
Forms of fricatrice
| plural | fricatrices |
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Origin of fricatrice
Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare (“to rub”).
Questions about fricatrice
- What does fricatrice mean?
- Fricatrice means a lewd woman or prostitute.
- What part of speech is fricatrice?
- Fricatrice is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fricatrice?
- Fricatrice is pronounced /ˈfɹɪkətɹɪs/.
- What is the plural of fricatrice?
- The plural of fricatrice is fricatrices.
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