délassementn.
/deɪˈlasmɒ̃/ Relaxation.
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1804 M. Wilmot Let. 8 Aug. (1934) i. 122 The serpantine Mazes of two Polonaizes, which walk (for 'tis no more) is the only dilassement one has.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxii. 205 Clive (who had taken a trip to Paris with his father, as a délassement after the fatigues incident on his great work)..declared the thing was rubbish.
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 56 We had the délassemens of many meals, and music, and whist, and songs at night.
1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xxiv. 232 Illusion—hallucination—délassement of the senses—that sort of thing.
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