Look up: Frottage


  1. Frottage
    [art] In art, frottage (from French frotter, "to rub") is a surrealist and "automatic" method of creative production developed by Max Ernst. In frottage the artist takes a pencil or other drawing tool and makes a rubbing over a textured surface. The drawing can be left as is or used as the b...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frottage_(art)

  2. frottage
    [n] - masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd)
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=frottage

  3. frottage
    Relief image obtained by placing a sheet of paper over a broken, textured, or ornamented surface, and rubbing it with a pencil, crayon, or charcoal. Brass rubbing uses the same technique. The term...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  4. Frottage
    Surrealist automatist technique developed by Max Ernst in drawings made from 1925. Frottage is the French word for rubbing. Ernst was inspired by an ancient wooden floor where the grain of the planks had been accentuated by many years of scrubbing. The patterns of the graining suggested strange imag...
    Found op http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=113

  5. frottage
    1. The rubbing movement in massage. ... 2. Production of sexual excitement by rubbing against someone. ... Origin: F. A rubbing ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?frottage

  6. frottage
    noun masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd)
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=frottage

  7. frottage
    (fro-tahzh´) a rubbing movement in massage. frotteurism.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  8. frottage
    (French: `rubbing`), in visual arts, technique of obtaining an impression of the surface texture of a material, such as wood, by placing a piece of ... [5 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/66

  9. Frottage
    Frottage is the practice of rubbing oneself against, or touching, the clothed bodies of other people, usually in a crowd, for sexual gratification.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AF.HTM

  10. frottage
    Type: Term Pronunciation: frō-tahzh′ Definitions: 1. The rubbing movement in massage. 2. Production of sexual excitement by rubbing against someone.
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=35609

  11. frottage
    Relief image obtained by placing a sheet of paper over a broken, textured, or ornamented surface, and rubbing it with a pencil, crayon, or charcoal. Brass rubbing uses the same technique. The term was invented by the German Dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst, who used the process to eliminate the cons...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0050330.html

  12. frottage
    1) Masturbation 2) Onanism 3) Self-abuse
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/frottage/1

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