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‖ agrément|agremɑ̃|
Also (pl.) agrémens.
[F.: see agreement.]
1. pl. = agreement 9.
1711Spectator No. 28, 2 Apr., I had ghessed by the little Agréemens upon his Sign, that he was a Frenchman. 1749Chesterfield Let. 14 Nov. (1774) I. 489 You must..captivate them by the agrémens, and charms of conversation. 1841Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) I. 96 All the agrémens it [sc. honeysuckle] brings us. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxii. 566 We..talked..about the agrémens of the place. It was very agreeable for the English. 1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. vii. 153 Lansquenet, racing, Coralies, champagne, and all one's other habitual agréments. 1904W. James Let. 1 Jan. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. of W. J. (1935) II. 201 America does not offer the agréments to a tourist which almost any part of Europe offers.
2. Mus. pl. Grace-notes; embellishments.
1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. i. 87/1 Extraneous episodes, or fashionable divisions, which being the agrémens, or trimmings, of the times, become antiquated. 1871J. Hiles Dict. Mus. Terms 9 Agréments, graces, embellishments, ornaments. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. I. 44/1 The agrémens used in modern music..are the acciacatura, appoggiatura, arpeggio, mordent, nachschlag, shake or trill, slide, and turn.
3. The approval given by the government of a country to a diplomatic representative of another country.
1917E. Satow Guide to Diplomatic Practice I. xiv. 193 The generally existing diplomatic practice to ask, previously to any nomination of a foreign minister, the consent (agrément) of the Government to which he is to be accredited. 1939H. Nicolson Diplomacy x. 236 It is customary..to sound a foreign government privately before making a formal application for an agrément. 1955Times 2 May 10/3 The present Burmese Ambassador to India has been accorded an agrément by the Queen as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. |