Frottage

/fɹˈɒtɪdʒ/

/fɹˈɑːɾɪdʒ/

[noun]

Frottage

[NOUN]

masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd)

a technique used in drawing and painting that involves the use of textures to create a pattern or texture

Examples

1. Others employed frottage, or rubbings, brûlant, or the burning of photographic negatives, and decalcomania.

2. The technique used to generate these images is called frottage which is a French word for rubbing.

3. It is in a sense deeply strange, even silly that so much should hang on this issue, that the future of families, the fate of children, the division of assets, the survival of a friendship group, should depend on the right sort of frottage of a few centimetres of our upper limbs.

4. So frottage, which means rubbing in French, is a technique that Ernst developed really looking at floorboards, old Parisian, you know, who knows, 18th-century floorboards and hardwoods that had been rubbed away over the centuries of just walking over them.