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单词 massé
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masséadj.n.

Brit. /ˈmasi/, /ˈmaseɪ/, U.S. /mæˈseɪ/
Forms: 1800s– masse, 1900s– massé.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French massé, masser
Etymology: < French massé, past participle of masser to make a massé stroke (1830 in this sense) < masse mace n.2 (see sense 3a s.v.).
Billiards, Pool, etc.
A. adj.
Designating a shot or stroke made with the cue more or less vertical, so as to impart extra swerve to the cue ball.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [adjective] > type of stroke
fluking1865
massé1873
carry-along1913
miscued1962
1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 351 The hazard may be made by a masse stroke.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 27 Feb. 2/3 The technicalities of nursery cannons, masse cannons, and winning and losing hazards.
1904 J. P. Mannock Billiards Expounded 86 By this you will see that so long as you keep your cue in a horizontal line, no fears need be experienced of causing damage to the cloth, nor need there be any on the same score when a massé shot is being attempted.
1929 Times 1 Nov. 7/4 At the end of the last of these breaks he missed a difficult massé cannon, through partly miscueing.
1983 Sci. Amer. July 119/1 The cue ball is given a massé shot, knocks in the 15 ball, misses the eight ball and heads toward the rail in a curved path because of sideways friction.
B. n.
A massé stroke.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke
hazard1674
carambole1775
carom1779
cannon1802
screw1825
sidestroke1834
following stroke1837
cannonade1844
five-stroke1847
follow1850
scratch1850
fluke1857
jenny1857
bank shot1859
angle shot1860
draw shot1860
six-stroke1861
run-through1862
spot1868
quill1869
dead-stroke1873
loser1873
push1873
push stroke1873
stab1873
stab screw1873
draw1881
force1881
plant1884
anchor cannon1893
massé1901
angle1902
cradle-cannon1907
pot1907
jump shot1909
carry-along1913
snooker1924
1901 Q. Rev. Apr. 484 [He] played the massé well for an Englishman.
1983 Sci. Amer. July 119/1 The massé is commonly employed to send the cue ball around an obstacle to reach a hidden ball.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

massév.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French massé, masser.
Etymology: < French massé, past participle of masser mass v.3The 1886 edition of Maguire's Art of Massage uses the form masser and the 1887 edition also has massé as a past tense form:1886 D. Maguire Art of Massage (new ed.) 10 Masser the limb well.1886 D. Maguire Art of Massage (new ed.) 11 Masser in like manner with the ulnar borders of the hands.1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) 12 I have massé for three hours..in most anxious cases. N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (mæ·se) /ˈmæseɪ/.
Obsolete.
transitive. To massage (a person or part of the body).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > physiotherapy > practise physiotherapy [verb (transitive)] > massage
to rub down1682
shampoo1762
mass1788
mull1828
massage1887
massé1887
1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) iv. 55 We are no longer in those days when four, six, or eight persons were employed at one time to massé you.
1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 660 In masséing the face of a fat patient, the tissues can only be rolled and stretched under the fingers and palm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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