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attaché|əˈtæʃeɪ| [Fr., pa. pple. of attacher to attach.] One attached to, connected with, on the staff of, another person or thing; spec. one attached to the suite of an ambassador.
1835H. Greville Leaves fr. Diary 55 To offer this post to Fraser, now paid attaché at Vienna. 1859Masson Milton I. 404 [He] had come up to London and become an attaché of the court. 1876A. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. June 42 One is surprised to see English attachés skating in Tehran. 1883Scot. Rev. Sept. 282 The attachés of a leading daily paper in New York. Hence, attachéship [see -ship].
1834Tait's Mag. I. 440/1 Attachéship is, in fact, too onerous a calling for any man to adopt. Ibid. 440/2 The Honourable Arthur is promoted to paid attachéship. 1857Thackeray Fitz-Bood. Prof. Wks. IV. 26. 1882 Standard 25 Oct. 5/4 Colonel T. Gonne..has accepted the Military Attachéship at Constantinople. |