Meanings
alternative agrèmens
- pluralplural onlyAgreeable qualities or circumstances.
Arthur Young, that shrewd plucky traveller, smiled as we do at the tedious repetition of the agrémens of beautiful Paris.
1858, The National Magazine3 more examples
When to this was added the state dinners, to which she was always regularly invited, and held as a distinguished guest, and it was remembered how seldom this occurred in other houses since her widowhood, the vacillating mind took a new direction, and it was voted an impracticable thing to part with the baroness and her atmosphere of agrémens.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 205The impressions which I had previously conceived were confirmed that there was no place in the world in which the agrémens of life are so accessible at so little cost by an individual who lives only for himself...
1858, "The Life of George Tucker", in The Life and Philosophical Writings of George Tucker (republished in Bristol by Thoemmes Press in 2004), volume 1"I was the principal witness for the prosecution in this cause célèbre, with all the agrémens that attend that enviable position."
2006, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Room in the Dragon Volant
Origin
- Frenchagrémens
- Englishagrémens
Borrowed from French agrémens.
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