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frisson
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Definition:a sudden emotion of giddiness from excitement or fright
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And she couldn't ignore the new frisson between them; it was like an electric current.
Anita Hughes. Christmas in London, p.140 (2017)
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Marty Lagina: [...] you get that little frisson of excitement, so great! You know, maybe we're getting into something.History Network. The Curse of Oak Island, Season 5, episode 3 (2017)
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That frisson of fear gave her extra strength.
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.386 (1990)
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They were five women and one man, whom we will call Lothario as he was then married to one cast member and dating another, which added a certain frisson to their performances.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.217 (2004)
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When a French journalist desires a frisson there is a frisson; he discovers, let us say, that the President of the Republic has murdered three wives. Our yellow journalists invent quite as unscrupulously as this; their moral condition is, as regards careful veracity, about the same.
Gilbert K. Chesterton. Heretics.
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It gives me a little frisson even now, walking past that house— butterflies suddenly swarm in my stomach, and a smile comes to my lips and colour to my cheeks.
Paula Hawkins. The Girl on the Train, p.239 (2015)
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What is one to make of Eyes Wide Shut? Is this the chef-d'oeuvre, the pièce de résistance if you will, of this legendary cinematic auteur? Does it possess the penultimate exigency, the insouciant escargot, the frisson de voiture of Stan's earlier work?
Dave Barry. Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, p.132 (2000)
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