froideurn.

1645 S. Goffe Let. 1 May in Ld. George Digby's Cabinet (1646) 30 I have been with the Princesse of Orange, where I finde such froideurs and objections..that I beleeve..our businesse [is] at an end.

1656 I. B. tr. M. de Scudéry Triumphant Arch Erected 142 Those..whose most sensible contentments have never..made them shed a tear, do..make that an object of their froideur [Fr. froideur] and disdain, which might be the object of all the worlds desires.

1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton II. 147 He replied, with the most insulting froideur, that if Sir William had really a friendship for him, he would certainly give him a preference, in the purchase of a jewel.

1898 Era 11 June 21/1 Miss Margaret Ayrtoun acts with aristocratic froideur as Lady D'Arcy.

2015 N.Y. Times 2 Sept. (Arts section) c1/4 Androgynous and possessed of a shivery froideur, Ms. Hynde has long been an unconventional sex symbol.

1804 Count O'Connell Let. 1 Aug. in M. A. O'Connell Last Col. Irish Brigade (1892) II. viii. 243 I sincerely wish the unfavourable change in the Expectations of his Brother..may not create a dislike, or at least a froideur, between them.

1850 Morning Post 12 Feb. 5/3 The Napoléon also loudly protests against any insinuations that the President and General Changarnier are on bad terms. That a certain degree of froideur does, however, exist, there can, unhappily, be no doubt.

1978 K. Amis Lett. (2000) 860 For some years now there has been a froideur between us (entirely his fault, let it be observed), and my recommending you might do you more harm than good.

2013 Independent 30 Mar. (Sport section) 22/2 The Dubai World Cup crowns a card so magnetic that it has even thawed the froideur between its hosts, the Maktoum family, and their traditional antagonists at Coolmore.