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tristesse en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English trestesse, tristes, tristesce, tristesse, tristice, from Middle French tristesse.

Meanings

  1. (literary, uncountable) sadness
    • The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling. 1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 52:
    • “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.” 2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times: