petrissage

1. 1.

   massage of the skin which is gently lifted and squeezed

   Broadermassage

Other forms of petrissage

plural

petrissages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about petrissage

What does petrissage mean?

petrissage means "massage of the skin which is gently lifted and squeezed".

How many syllables are in petrissage?

petrissage has 3 syllables and divides as pe-tris-sage under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.