frotteur

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_ Bowing, as we passed, he consigned us, with a graceful wave of the hand, to the care of Pierre, the _frotteur_.

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  • Both the sweeping and waxing of floors was reserved for a manservant called the frotteur who went tearing about from room to room with brushes strapped to his feet, “dancing here and there like a merry Andrew,” and to whom was also assigned the unenviable task of emptying the chamber pots. —  John Adams by David McCullough
  • _ Bowing, as we passed, he consigned us, with a graceful wave of the hand, to the care of Pierre, the _frotteur_. —  The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
  • I took him for some fragment of a _duc et pair_ of the old school; but, on putting the question to _the frotteur_, who himself might have passed for a _figurante_ at the opera, he informed us that he was '_Notre bourgeois_,' the master of the hotel. " —  The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
  • Vous connaissiez ma maison, je l'ai augmentée d'un cocher, d'un frotteur, un garçon de cuisine, et j'ai marié mon aide de cuisine; car je travaille à peupler la colonie: 80 mariages de soldats cet hiver et deux d'officiers. —  Montcalm and Wolfe
  • _frotteur_ comes in before we are up in the morning, shod with great brushes, and dances over the floors till they shine. " —  Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
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  1. French, from frotter, to rub; see frottage.
 

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