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Borrowed from French masseuse, feminine of masseur.
masseuse (plural masseuses)
- A woman who performs massage; a female masseur.
- Friends (TV series, episode 3.05)
- Oh! I'm a masseuse. I give people massages and stuff.
- Friends (TV series, episode 3.05)
- (nonstandard) A masseur; a man who performs massage.
2003, Helena B. Rich., L. C. S. W. Helena B. Rich, The Art of Masturdating: A Guidebook for Single Heterosexuals, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 103:
He was a great masseuse.
2012, Penny Dixon, Betrayed, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 57:
He was a good masseuse, and could always make Jez relax.
1998, Bad Subjects Production Team, Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, NYU Press, →ISBN:
Waited, got up, opened the door and saw the masseuse playing backgammon. Told him I was ready, didn't know what for. He waved me away, and I returned to the slab. By the time he came in, a mustached masseuse was sponging down a German woman on the opposite side of the marble; her husband sat on the perimeter watching (this was not a traditional hamam).
- year unknown, Jamie Lake, BOOK 4 - Bad Boy: Naughty at Night: Bad Boy | Gay Romance MM Boyfriend Series, Jamie Lake
- Just less than a week ago, he'd said he'd tell Peter's parents, his school, the press, that Peter was an erotic masseuse.
2011, Mark D West, Lovesick Japan: Sex Marriage, Romance, Law, page 152:
In most massages, both the male masseuse and the female client are naked and the focus is on erogenous zones.
female masseur
- Arabic: مُدَلِّكَة f (mudallika)
- Belarusian: масажыстка f (masažystka)
- Bulgarian: масажистка f (masažistka)
- Catalan: massatgista f
- Czech: masérka (cs) f
- Danish: massøse c (rare)
- Dutch: masseuse (nl) f
- Esperanto: masaĝistino
- Finnish: hierojatar, hieroja (fi)
- French: masseuse (fr) f
- German: Masseurin (de) f, Masseuse (de) f (dated feminine form or sexual connotation)
- Hungarian: masszőz (hu)
- Italian: massaggiatrice f
- Lao: ຫມໍນວດ (mǭ nūat)
- Latin: tractātrīx f, ūnctrīx f
- Macedonian: ма́серка f (máserka)
- Norwegian:
- Polish: masażystka (pl) f
- Portuguese: massagista (pt) f, massageadora f, massajadora f
- Romanian: maseză (ro) f
- Russian: массажи́стка (ru) f (massažístka)
- Spanish: masajista (es) f
- Swedish: massös (sv) c
- Ukrainian: масажистка f (masažystka)
- Volapük: jimasetan
Borrowed from French masseuse, equivalent to masseren + -euse.
masseuse f (plural masseuses)
- female equivalent of masseur (“masseuse”)
- “masseuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.