tristesse
/trɪˈstɛs
/noun [mass noun] literary
A state of melancholy sadness: lamenting a lost love, he leaves us poised at the lip of a chasm of tristesse post-coital tristesse...
- They knew that satiation wasn't succeeded by tristesse, it was itself, immediately, tristesse.
- But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place.
- And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death.
Origin
French.
Rhymes
- manganocalcite
- manganocene
- manganocolumbite
- manganocyanic
- manganocyanide
- manganolite
- mangano-manganic
- manganomelane
- manganophyllite
- manganosiderite
- manganosite
- manganostibiite
- manganostibite
- manganotantalite
- manganous
- manganpectolite
- manganpectolith
- manganpyrosmalite
- mangantantalite
- mange
- mangeao
- mangel
- mangel flea beetle
- mangel fly
- mangel-wurzel