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fricatrices

fricatrices is the plural of fricatrice.

Meaning of fricatrice

Noun

fricatrice (plural fricatrices)

  1. (obsolete) 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...
  2. (obsolete) A woman who masturbates.

Questions about fricatrices

What is fricatrices the plural of?
Fricatrices is the plural of fricatrice.

Words near fricatrices in the dictionary

  1. fricatize
  2. fricatized
  3. fricatizes
  4. fricatizing
  5. fricatrice
  6. fricatrices
  7. fricc
  8. fricced
  9. friccing
  10. friccs
  11. frice

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