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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
masseur
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any experienced masseur can tell how often, as they release muscle tension, tears are shed.
▪ Each team has managers, mechanics and masseurs.
▪ No, but what about that wild masseur in the Doritos commercial?
▪ Now if I put in five hours, I have to go to a masseur.
▪ The crash which left Konstantinov and team masseur Sergei Mnatsakanov in comas for several weeks.
▪ There were no engineers or sponsors or press officers or masseurs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masseur

Masseur \Mas`seur"\ (m[.a]*s[^u]r"), n.; pl. Masseurs (m[.a]*s[^u]rz"; F. m[.a]*s[^u]r"). [F. See Massage.]

  1. A man who practices massage.

  2. An instrument used in the performance of massage.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masseur

"man who works giving massages," 1876, from French masseur, masc. agent noun from masser (see massage). Native massagist (1889), massager (1921) have not displaced it, though the latter is used in purely mechanical and figurative senses.

Wiktionary
masseur

n. 1 (context massage English) A person (especially male) who performs massage. 2 An instrument used in the performance of massage.

WordNet
masseur

n. a male massager

Usage examples of "masseur".

Arabs in scarlet and blue cloaks passed by to the Bain Maure, under whose white and blue archway lounged the Kabyle masseurs with folded, muscular arms.

Here, too, were barbers and fortunetellers, masseurs, tattooers, and spirits knew who else.

Then the heart masseur, the oxygenator, the artificial kidney would fight against vagal inhibition and maintain life in his body until he had painfully accepted the frustration of his planned escape from the world.

In a contoured seat like a masseur couch without the masseur attachments, he guided his ‘cycle with pedals and a joystick.

In a contoured seat like a masseur couch without the masseur attachments, he guided his 'cycle with pedals and a joystick.

The grueling toil, the drum of advice always pounding in the ears, the cruel masseurs like two giant-people, the tiredness, the thick black swoon of sleep with dreams so deeply buried they were not recalled.

Ludwig Bellamy practicing forms before a mirror, Kaltin Gruder on a masseurs table.

The chirurgeons, lackeys, and masseurs, of course, were themselves in attendance.

The sounds are of a tiny, unenthusiastic audience applauding the death scene in some tragedy: it is the two masseurs walloping and potching at the flesh of their victims, men half-clad in sheets and stretched out across marble slabs.

The couch stood in a secluded corner of the preparation room, the masseur had withdrawn.

She’d enjoyed her share of rundowns and massages over the years, but Paul was one of the most skilled masseurs she’d ever encountered .