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empressement

[ahn-pres-mahn] / ɑ̃ prɛsˈmɑ̃ /


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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

On the spur of that smile Ernest greeted his cousins with a degree of empressement that they certainly wouldn't have been honored by without it.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

He received my advances with very great empressement indeed, and we had a good deal of pleasant chat.’

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

They received us with much courtesy, 436and escorted us round the various apartments with considerable empressement.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

"How do you do, dear Mrs. Gower?" he said with empressement, his strikingly handsome face aglow with pleasure.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Annie Gregg Savigny


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