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Meaning of "frottage" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FROTTAGE

French, from frotter to rub.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FROTTAGE

frottage  [ˈfrɒtɑːʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FROTTAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Frottage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FROTTAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Frottage

Frottage may refer to: ▪ Frottage, sexual rubbing; non-penetrative sex ▪ Frot, male-on-male nonpenetrative sex ▪ Frottage, technique ▪ Fudgie Frottage, drag king...

Definition of frottage in the English dictionary

The definition of frottage in the dictionary is the act or process of taking a rubbing from a rough surface, such as wood, for a work of art. Other definition of frottage is sexual excitement obtained by rubbing against another person's clothed body.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FROTTAGE


bricolage
ˈbrɪkəˌlɑːʒ
cabotage
ˈkæbəˌtɑːʒ
camouflage
ˈkæməˌflɑːʒ
collage
kəˈlɑːʒ
curettage
ˌkjʊərɪˈtɑːʒ
dressage
ˈdrɛsɑːʒ
ecotage
ˈiːkəʊˌtɑːʒ
entourage
ˈɒntʊˌrɑːʒ
etage
eɪˈtɑːʒ
garage
ˈɡærɑːʒ
massage
ˈmæsɑːʒ
mirage
mɪˈrɑːʒ
montage
mɒnˈtɑːʒ
paysage
ˌpeɪˈzɑːʒ
photomontage
ˌfəʊtəʊmɒnˈtɑːʒ
Pinotage
ˈpɪnətɑːʒ
plage
plɑːʒ
rapportage
ˌræpɔːˈtɑːʒ
sabotage
ˈsæbəˌtɑːʒ
sondage
sɒnˈdɑːʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FROTTAGE

frostwork
frosty
froth
froth flotation
frother
frothery
frothily
frothiness
frothless
frothy
frotteur
Froude
Froude number
froufrou
froughy
frounce
frouzier
frouziest
frouziness
frouzy

WORDS THAT END LIKE FROTTAGE

advantage
Cape Cod cottage
cottage
country cottage
cuttage
dilation and curettage
footage
heritage
holiday cottage
mess of pottage
percentage
plottage
pottage
reportage
stage
telecottage
thatched cottage
vintage
wattage
weekend cottage

Synonyms and antonyms of frottage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «frottage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FROTTAGE

Find out the translation of frottage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of frottage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «frottage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

frottage
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

frottage
570 millions of speakers

English

frottage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

frottage
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تدلاك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Поглаживание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

frottage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

frottage
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

frottage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Frottage
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Frottage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フロッタージュ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

frottage
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Frottage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

frottage
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

frottage
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्रॉटेज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

frottage
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

frottage
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

frottage
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

погладжування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

frottage
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

frottage
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Frottage
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Frottage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frottage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of frottage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FROTTAGE»

The term «frottage» is regularly used and occupies the 99.692 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FROTTAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «frottage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «frottage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about frottage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROTTAGE»

Discover the use of frottage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to frottage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Frottage & Even As We Speak: Two Novellas
Fiction. This remarkable debut work brings together two powerful novellas that take a hard look at twenty-first century Southern California life and come up on the wry side of compassion.
Mona Houghton, 2012
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Apes and Human Evolution
female sessions of frottage; infants accounted for somewhat more than half of them. Mothers and other adult females with partially swelled perinei were the most frequent participants in interfemale frottage. They constituted one or both partners ...
Russell H. Tuttle, 2014
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Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment
In these case studies, acts of “frottage”1 are usually described as being pathological and opportunistic. Toward the end of the 19th century, Valentin Magnan, a well-known French psychiatrist, made a few observations about three men who ...
D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, 2008
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Fearless Drawing: Illustrated Adventures for Overcoming ...
Frottage is essentially a posh way of saying “rubbing”—it's taking a textured surface, placing a sheet of paper on the top, and using a soft pencil, crayon, charcoal, or pastel to color over the paper and reproduce the texture below. It is a great ...
Kerry Lemon, 2014
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Southern Decadence
After Frottage pretended to be concerned about his papers for a while, he made an unexpected suggestion. “Eddie, let's go up to the attic and take a peek around, why don't we.” Eddie made a sly smile and snickered. “Sure, doc, lead the way.
Brian Sand, 2006
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Painted Paper: Techniques and Projects for Handmade Books ...
ALPHABETICAL, 2005; paste paper frottage, punched covers, sewn pages, rubber stamps; address books/journals; 4/8"x6" (10.3 cm x 15.2 cm). Technique: paste-paper frottage Tools: flat objects, such as paper stencils, tags, pieces of torn ...
Alisa Golden, 2009
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New York School Collaborations: The Color of Vowels
To elicit these fortuitous encounters, Ernst and other surrealists employed techniques culled from the modernist avant-garde, in particular collage, while Ernst also devised new techniques, including frottage and fumage. In defining the  ...
Mark Silverberg, 2013
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Artists' Techniques and Materials
Frottage Tools and Supports Tools: paper, canvas, pencils, oil colors, pastels. Supports: wood, leaves, canvas, spatulas, metal grids and other rough- textured materials Diffusion Frottage and grattage are linked to Max Ernst and his work ...
Antonella Fuga, 2006
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Playing with Sketches: 50 Creative Exercises for Designers ...
For her, frottage is a primary element of her work and directly integrates the textures of her own making into her other works. To create her unique textures, she embroiders paper ephemera, such as printed forms that have graphic elements ...
Whitney Sherman, 2013
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Max Ernst: A Retrospective
FROTTAGE, GRATTAGE, AND DECALCOMANIA Among the most important innovations effected by the Surrealists in their explo— rations au-dela de la , oeinture, or beyond painting, was the use of semiautomatic techniques, among them ...
Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Sabine Rewald, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROTTAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term frottage is used in the context of the following news items.
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Garden is the natural choice for outdoors fun these holidays
Use the materials provided to create a collage frottage to take home. The workshop on Saturday, July 11, will be Dinosaurs. Take a walk ... «Coffs Coast Advocate, Jun 15»
2
Have an affair with yourself: 6 tips for revelling in solitude
What could be better than 35 minutes of tipsy, uninterrupted and wholly unsupervised frottage with a Siamese under the light of a waxing moon ... «Times LIVE, Jun 15»
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Visual Art: John Wolseley's Heartlands and Headwaters brings …
With drawing, mapping, frottage, writing and diagrams, Wolseley's inquiry into the ecology of wetlands creates a lyrical visual world that hums ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
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Style Invitational Week 1127: Because there just aren't enough TV …
BBHIRSU → Rubbish: Having a propensity for frottage. “Stay away from that guy on the Metro — he's rubbish.” (Bob Brown). → Br-ish: Just ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
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Top 6 Sex Ed Lessons from 'The Bachelorette'
We need to reconceptualize sex so that hetero intercourse is not the be-all-end-all of sexual activity. There's masturbation, frottage, manual sex, ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
6
Canines to Cannabis in Artist Huma Bhabha's New Show
... working to create a frottage effect for several works on paper in her current exhibition at Salon 94's downtown galleries, on view until June 28. «Vulture, May 15»
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John Wolseley, artist, emerges as a lyrical poet and a prophet
Wolseley exploits local pigments, pollens and charcoal, or uses as frottage the texture of stone surfaces, to empower nature to depict herself in ... «The Conversation AU, May 15»
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Aleksandar Duravcevic Brings Fragments of Epic Violence to Venice …
The third room is a love letter in the form of graffiti, which will be a frottage, rubbed from a Renaissance palazzo that I saw when I was a student ... «artnet News, May 15»
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Flat Three, restaurant review: 'Hardcore food spods should be all of …
All the Michelin-friendly frottage, the fervid introductions of new dishes as "a brilliant idea from the chef", the donning of a single white glove, ... «The Independent, May 15»
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Artist John Wolseley: 'We allow such terrible things to happen to our …
He made markings by rubbing the paper against burnt branches after bush fire (he calls it frottage), by burying it or by letting insects make their ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»

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