frottagen.
/ˈfrɒtɑːʒ/, /ˈfrɒtɪdʒ/, /frɒˈtɑːʒ/, U.S. /frɔˈtɑʒ/ 1. Psychiatry. (See quot. 1933.)
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [noun] > frottage
frottage1933
frotteurism1954
1933 H. Ellis Psychol. Sex ii. 37 The special perversion of frottage..consists in a desire to bring the clothed body, and usually though not exclusively the genital region, into close contact with the clothed body of a woman.
1939 G. R. Scott Encycl. Sex (at cited word) Like fetichism, too, frottage is evidently a morbid development of the normal sexual excitatory effects of touching or contact with the opposite sex.
1955 H. T. Moore in D.H. Lawrence Sex, Lit. & Censorship 27 The entire day's catalogue of voyeurism, frottage, and various other kinds of aberrant gratification.
2. Art. The technique or process of taking a rubbing from an uneven surface, e.g. grained wood or sacking, as a point of departure for a work of art.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > preparing of surface > specific method
blot?1785
linography1888
frottage1935
1935 D. Gascoyne Short Surv. Surrealism iv. 133 Parallel with these features..may be placed collage and frottage.
1959 H. Read Conc. Hist. Mod. Painting iv. 138 Max Ernst..also invented the ‘frottage’—that is to say, designs composed of ‘rubbings’ of various rough surfaces.
1961 Spectator 29 Sept. 428 Evolved his own special techniques of frottage (a process not unlike brass-rubbing) and collage.
1967 G. H. Hamilton Painting & Sculpture in Europe vii. 265 The discovery of..frottage (rubbing), occurred on the rainy evening of 10 August 1925 in a room by the sea.
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