caress
noun
an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
caresser
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a word derived from
caress.
Example Sentences
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Olly was playing cat's-cradle with the good-natured Mr. Upjohn, and merely kicked out at his caresser, as a warning that he was not to be interrupted.
From Only an Incident by Grace Denio Litchfield
In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing, To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing, Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
He was accused, as has been suggested, by Holbach's circle "de caresser les gens en place, et d'abandonner ceux qui n'y sont plus."
From Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Max Pearson Cushing
