empressement
Americannoun
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empressements
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At the station M. Bouc was greeted with respectful empressement by the brown-uniformed Wagon Lit conductor.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Only two of the Misses Darcy were there to meet her, in Effie May's limousine, their manner nicely adjusted between melancholy, importance, and the empressement due a distinguished relative returning from foreign parts.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Belle met Geraldine with all that tender empressement which he knew well how to put into his slightest actions; but the young lady seemed already almost to have begun repenting her hasty step.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
And this empressement was not surprising, as he was decidedly the handsomest and most elegant man in the room.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
It might be thought that the Roman authorities would welcome with empressement an emissary who came under such distinguished patronage.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
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