massage

massage
{{11}}massage (n.) 1874, from Fr. massage "friction of kneading," from masser "to massage," possibly from Arabic massa "to touch, feel, handle;" if so, probably picked up in Egypt during the Napoleonic campaign there. Other possibility is that French got it in colonial India from Portuguese amassar "knead," a verb from L. massa "mass, dough" (see MASS (Cf. mass) (n.1)). Massage parlor first attested 1894, from the start a euphemism for "house of prostitution."
{{12}}massage (v.) 1874, from MASSAGE (Cf. massage) (n.). Related: Massaged; massaging.

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