What's the difference between masseur and masseuse?
Masseur
Definition:
(n. f.) Alt. of Masseuse
Example Sentences:
(1) Players may have ever-expanding retinues – coaches, fitness trainers, sports psychologists, masseurs, agents and managers – but ultimately they have to do the job alone, out there in the gladiatorial setting of a packed tennis court with only their thoughts for company.
(2) He says bakers make good masseurs too, from all that practice manipulating dough.
(3) Scott Parker had already succumbed in the first period of extra time and, during the breaks, England's physios and masseurs could be seen moving between the players, trying desperately to soothe their aching limbs.
(4) Branislav Ivanovic, who had only discovered post-match in a Sky television interview that his booking for scuffing the penalty spot ahead of Messi's attempt would rule him out of the showpiece, joked with the masseurs as if it actually mattered little.
(5) It was one of the masseurs' 50th birthday today, so we strapped him and volleyed a few balls at him, as us mature boys do, and that's it.
(6) Fysion Blesreg is a new system on which sports assistants (trainers, masseurs, physiotherapists and physicians) can rely for quick and straightforward registration and retrieval of personalized injury data.
(7) Charles A. Tyrrell was a masseur who obtained his MD degree at age 57 in 1900.
(8) The masseur of a famous ballet company developed severe contact dermatitis of his hands.
(9) This content analysis of 1,111 paid ads in the Advocate identifies 17 self-descriptive categories in the "Personals" (PER) and "Models, Masseurs, and Escorts" (MME) sections of the "Trader Dick" supplement.
(10) The costumes are so heavy performers are only allowed to wear them for 20 minutes at a stretch, and there's a physio and masseur on standby throughout filming, just in case.
(11) Paul, a gay sex worker and masseur working from a flat in Glasgow insists that transparency is the only way to improve the health, safety and status of sex workers.
(12) Shimshon Liebman, who chaired the Shalit campaign committee for the past three years, received offers of help, including from a professor of nutrition and a masseur.
(13) Already, they have a lavish backroom support staff that would make their rivals jealous, including a nutritionist, a masseur, a doctor, a recovery specialist, two physiotherapists, two kit men, a video tactician and three coaches.
(14) It is understood that Mourinho’s issues with Carneiro have nothing to do with Diego Costa’s recurrent hamstring trouble – the striker’s treatment has been carried out by the club’s physiotherapists and masseurs.
(15) Officially it's to aid quick healing of cuts and road rash, and to make life easier for the team masseurs.
(16) Lying back on the thick cushions of an armchair in his villa, with the windows curtained against an angry sun that was threatening to evaporate the Zaire River as it slid like a grassy ocean past his front door, he talked with the quiet contentment of a man whose thoughts were acting on him as comfortingly as the hands of a good masseur.
(17) The masseurs and other back room staff walk over the affected area, mimicking the sloping gait of ice skaters.
(18) Of course we Cubans aspire to more democracy, more liberty and more of everything, because the truth is that life here is really hard,” said Roger Granado, a 44-year-old masseur from the working-class Cerro neighbourhood.
(19) Stiner was the masseur who alleged he saw a bottle of Androgel, a testosterone gel, in Salazar’s training camp in Park City in 2008.
(20) Burgess, a masseur, was a candidate for the Voluntary Euthanasia party in the last federal election, and had been a campaigner for the euthanasia advocacy group Exit International for about 15 years before he was diagnosed with rectal cancer in November 2011.
Masseuse
Definition:
(n. f.) One who performs massage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scrutiny of the prince’s relationship with the multimillionaire banker came as a legal and publicity battle intensified in the US over claims made last week in a Florida court by Virginia Roberts, a former masseuse employed by Epstein, that she was forced to have sex with the Duke of York over 10 years ago, as well as the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
(2) Roberts was working for $9 an hour as a changing room assistant at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago beach club, where her father was a maintenance manager, when she claims she was recruited to work as a masseuse for Epstein.
(3) Sami Spagnuolo, Masseuse and nutritionist, 35 Sami Spagnuolo: 'I don’t dress to show them off, but you don’t get tattoos unless you want them to be a talking point.'
(4) He is under mounting pressure to release a full account of his encounters with Epstein, when he is alleged to have had sexual relations with Roberts, whom Epstein had hired as a masseuse.
(5) Amy Hughes, the first school nurse, was one of a group of nurses who were instrumental in the founding of not only school and district nursing but the Society of Trained Masseuses as well.
(6) His big breakthrough was in persuading Armstrong's masseuse, Emma O'Reilly, to tell what she knew.
(7) The ex-masseuse has been named as the main witness for the defence in a case brought against her lawyers by Epstein.
(8) I had the masseuses take notes for me.” Talese writes elsewhere about his quite repressed upbringing.
(9) The Palace has declined to say, for example, why Andrew was in the company of a 17-year-old masseuse working for Epstein at Maxwell’s home.
(10) Of course, stereotypes come from real life – there are east Asian nannies, Thai mail-order brides, “exotic” sex workers, Filipina or Indonesian maids, martial arts experts, sexy mathematicians, scientists or masseuses, fierce tiger mothers, ball-breaking career women in legal or financial firms, dead cockle-pickers, trafficked underage girls, rude waitresses in Chinatown or bored women behind the takeaway counter in real life.
(11) In full view of a New York magazine writer who’d been sent to profile Talese, a masseuse “took hold of Gay’s penis as calmly as if it had been a pool cue” and playfully threatened to decapitate it .