frotteur
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of frotteur
Example Sentences
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"Ah," says Caroline, "the thing is managed better in Paris; the frotteur comes in before we are up in the morning, shod with great brushes, and dances over the floors till they shine."
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bowing, as we passed, he consigned us, with a graceful wave of the hand, to the care of Pierre, the frotteur.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
There is another indispensable servant, who is called a frotteur: his business is to rub the floors.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
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