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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While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2013
Looked upon as experimental, the club found instant favor, had an average at tendance its first year of 800 persons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every survivor of the Civil War draws $50 per month and those in need of regular aid and at tendance, which already included 41,000 of them, draw $72 per month.
From Time Magazine Archive
And at tendance at religious services motivated by proximity of danger can scarcely demonstrate the religious quotient of a man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Immediate duty was her refuge from anticipation, gentle tendance from the sense of misery, and, though her mother’s restless feebleness needed constant waiting on, her four notes were completed before post-time.
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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