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▪ I. ‖ tendre|tɑ̃dr|
[F. tendre n., from tendre, tender a.]
a. A tender feeling or regard; a fondness, an affection; a tenderness.
1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode iii. i, I have such a tendre for the court, that I love it even from the drawing-room to the lobby. 1695Congreve Love for L. i. xv, I will, because I have a tendre for your ladyship. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xlii, A pretty maid, who had a tendre for me. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. ii. ii, I am quite relieved..since you tell me there had been no tendre between her and Mr. Harvey. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xv, You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. 1887E. Simcox in K. A. McKenzie Edith Simcox & George Eliot (1961) 7 Having towards..Garibaldi..perhaps the same sort of tendre as that professed by Charlotte Bronte for the Duke of Wellington. 1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia vii. 298 She..was relieved to escape the new attachment, though she had a great tendre for him. 1980G. M. Fraser Mr American xxii. 439 The cunning old gentleman's reading of her character, and of her supposed tendre for Mr Franklin.
†b. An expression of tenderness. Obs. rare.
1705Vanbrugh Confed. iv. i, O Pox!.. I desire none of your Tendres.
▪ II. tendre
obs. form of tender, tinder. |