compressure

English

Noun

compressure (plural compressures)

(archaic) compression
- 1749, John Cleland, “part 3”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:
  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

vocative masculine singular of compressūrus

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