tendresseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tendresse (countable and uncountable, plural tendresses)

1. Tenderness, gentle intimacy or affection.
   • 1955, John Ray, Jr. [pseudonym; Vladimir Nabokov], “Foreword”, in Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, page 7:

     A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal. He is not a gentleman. But how magically his singing violin can conjure up a tendresse, a compassion for Lolita that makes us entranced with the book while abhorring its author!

   • 1974 February 2, Jonathan Cross, “Poor Butterfly”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 4:

     When Papillon makes his last impossible try for freedom they embrace with the tendresse of lovers, however manly and platonic.

   • 1976 June 12, Alden Whitman, “Books of The Times”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Women loved him, it is true, but he could not respond with enduring tendresse.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

   • 2023 January 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Tár review – Cate Blanchett is perfect lead in delirious, sensual drama”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 January 2023:

     Tár has furthermore conceived a tendresse for a new cellist.