Noun: massage
| Singular | massage |
| Plural | massages |
Sample Sentences
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Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.
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During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage. [2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond:]
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The baker gave the dough one final massage.
Nouns inflected like massage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German massieren. See: French Nouns '
massage'.