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  • The patterns for the slippers, the bell-ropes, the cabas were selected -- the slides and tassels for the purses chosen -- the whole "tripotage," in short, was off my mind; nothing but the fruit and the felicitations remained to be attended to.

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

  • Les deux principaux etant les yeux revulsés (ouais c sexe) et le fameux tripotage de piercing.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • _La Curée_ and _Son Excellence Eugène Rougon_ show how the more fortunate members of the clan prospered in the somewhat ignoble _tripotage_ of their time.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • There has been a fine tripotage among the higher females about this Irish ball.

    Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos 1829

  • tripotage,” in short, was off my mind; nothing but the fruit and the felicitations remained to be attended to.

    Villette 2003

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  • n., pawing, handling, or fingering (especially of people)

    July 8, 2008