frote
See also: froté
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frote (third-person singular simple present frotes, present participle froting, simple past and past participle froted)
- (obsolete) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
- 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Let a Man sweat once a week in a Hot-house, and be well rubb'd, and froted, with a good plump juicy Wench
- 1577, Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes:
- She smelles, she kisseth, and her corps
She loves exceedingly; She tufts her heare , she frotes her face
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frote
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frōte
- Alternative form of fruote, strong masculine nominative/accusative plural of fruot
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frote m (plural frotes)
- rub; rubbing
- Synonym: frotamiento
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frote
- inflection of frotar:
Further reading edit
- “frote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014