Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A harlot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A lewd woman; a harlot.

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  • noun obsolete A lewd woman; a harlot.

Etymologies

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Compare Latin frictrix, from fricare to rub.

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Examples

  •         Stain, like slaver abhorr'd breath'd from a foul fricatrice.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •         Stain, like slaver abhorr'd breath'd from a foul fricatrice.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • 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.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Stain, like slaver abhorr'd breath'd from a foul fricatrice.

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • For instantly it was done, thou didst bathe thy lips with many drops, and didst cleanse them with every finger-joint, lest anything remained from the conjoining of our mouths, as though it were the obscene slaver of a fetid fricatrice.

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

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  • This is my new curse word. Like when I drop something? "Ah, fricatrice!!"

    July 17, 2008

  • I make a mean Chicken Fricatrice! ;-)

    July 17, 2008