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
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
Supporters at Yale, for example, planned to spend the first two days this week telephoning everyone in the 380-page New Haven directory urging at tendance at a mass rally.
From Time Magazine Archive
Incidentally, I believe that Mr. Bestor is right in his stand that depression is responsible for Chautauqua's 40% decline in receipts and at tendance.
From Time Magazine Archive
He found the hurt fit chambers for tendance and repose, And prov'd his noble nature in the treatment of his foes.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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