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hollybrookefrisson \free-SOHN\, noun:
A moment of intense excitement; a shudder; an emotional thrill.
"When we think a story hasn't been invented, there's an extra frisson in reading it.
-- "Too true", Independent, April 12, 1998
"When we stopped in traffic at the Plaza de la Cibeles on the Paseo del Prado, where a grandiose 18th-century statue of the goddess of fertility poised on a chariot seemed to be waiting for the light to change, a little frisson of pleasure jolted through me, because this part of Madrid reminded me of Paris."
-- "Counting Pesetas in Madrid", New York Times, March 17, 1996
Frisson comes from the French, from Old French friçon, "a trembling," ultimately from Latin frigere, "to be cold."
A moment of intense excitement; a shudder; an emotional thrill.
"When we think a story hasn't been invented, there's an extra frisson in reading it.
-- "Too true", Independent, April 12, 1998
"When we stopped in traffic at the Plaza de la Cibeles on the Paseo del Prado, where a grandiose 18th-century statue of the goddess of fertility poised on a chariot seemed to be waiting for the light to change, a little frisson of pleasure jolted through me, because this part of Madrid reminded me of Paris."
-- "Counting Pesetas in Madrid", New York Times, March 17, 1996
Frisson comes from the French, from Old French friçon, "a trembling," ultimately from Latin frigere, "to be cold."
