tendance
Americannoun
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attention; care; ministration, as to the sick.
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Archaic. servants or attendants.
noun
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rare care and attention; ministration
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obsolete attendants collectively
Etymology
Origin of tendance
First recorded in 1565–75; aphetic variant of attendance
Example Sentences
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It was Sarris, inspired by François Truffaut's article Une Certain Tendance du Cinéma Français, published in Cahiers du Cinéma in 1954, who eight years later formulated the "auteur theory".
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012
Tendance upon the garden under the strait shadow of wall was to him, not a duty, not a pastime, but a ritual.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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