tristesse

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Definition of tristesse

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noun

(literary, uncountable)sadness

“The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling.”
““The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.””

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

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