tendresse

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'Hale! did it ever strike you that Thornton and your daughter have what the French call a tendresse for each other?'

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  • Compte sur ma tendresse, meme dans les circonstances les plus difficiles, tu l'auras toujours. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • So Quentin is giving the lad some sort of vague job as a favour to his mother, for whom he appears to have a tendresse. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • The 84-year-old more than holds his own in this company, his voice ranging fluently from deep valleys of tendresse to peaks of shameless melodrama. —  Expecting Rain
  • The big abstractions in French are unbearably vapid and cloudy (l'amour, la tendresse, la violence, la liberté, la fraternité, l'égalité, la connerie, etc ...) all that mawkish sentimentality that has no real connection with people who are only interested in money, sex and food, in that order. —  StrategyPage.com
  • J'ai perdu l'objet de ma plus vive tendresse, celui qui depuis 32 ans avait été mon amour, mon bonheur, et ma gloire, plein de vie, d'avenir, ma tęte n'y est plus, mon c[oe]ur est flétri, je tâche de me résigner, je pleure et je prie pour cette Ame qui m'était si chčre et pour que Dieu nous conserve l'infortuné et précieux Roi dont la douleur est incommensurable; nous tâchons de nous réunir tous pour faire un faisceau autour de lui. —  The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
 

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  1. Middle English tendresse, from Old French (also F.) tendresse (= Provencal tendreza, tenreza = Spanish terneza = Italian tenerezza), from tendre, tender: see tender.
 

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