fricatrice

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

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  • 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
  • Stain, like slaver abhorr'd breath'd from a foul fricatrice. —  The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
  • To a lewd harlot, a base fricatrice. —  The Poems and Fragments of 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
 

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  1. from Latin as if *fricatrix (after fricator, masculine) f or frictrix, feminine, from fricare (past participle fricatus and frictus), rub: see friction.
 

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