frotte (frota)

[F., rubbed, pp. of frotter, rub: see frote.] In art, a picture, or a part of frowning A garnyson she was of alle goodne e To make a frounter for a louer-is herte. vance. The frottola (literally a comic ditty) marks a step in ad Here types take the place of abstractions, and more characters than two are introduced; we are, however, still among dramatised dialogues rather than in view of dramatic action. A. W. Ward , Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 129. frou-frou (frö'frö), n. [F., intended as an imitation of a rustling sound.] A rustling, particularly the rustling of silk, as in a woman's dre : as, the silken frou - frou of her movements. [This term has become familiarized to some extent in English from the translation of a popular French play so named.] The shine of jewels, the frou - frou of silks, the odor of the details one and all of the pretty picture roses, which the hardened theater-goer fails to see because of its familiarity. Mail and Expre (New York), Dec. 26, 1888. frought, a. See frow2 . frounce (frouns), v.; pret. and pp. frounced, ppr. frouncing. [ He... frounses bot he lyppe & bro we. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2306. Frounced foule was hir visage. Rom . of the Rose, 1. 155. 2. To curl or frizzle, as hair. Some frounce their curled heare in courtly guise. Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 14. 3. To adorn with fringes, frills, or other ornaments of dre . A perriwig frounc'd fast to the front, or curl'd with a bodkin. Greene, Against the Gentlewomen of Sicilia. Not trick'd and frounc'd as she was wont. Milton, Il Penseroso, 1. 123. II. in trans. To wrinkle the forehead; frown. The frount frounseth that was shene, The nese droppeth ofte bitwene. Cursor Mundi. On the other side, the Commons frounced and stormed. Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 621. [Obsolete or archaic in all uses.]