compressure

English

Noun

compressure (countable and uncountable, plural compressures)

  1. (archaic) compression
    • 1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
      for, whilst he hesitated there, the crisis of pleasure overtook him, and the close compressure of the warm surrounding fold drew from him the extatic gush

Latin

Participle

compressūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of compressūrus
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