agrémens

See also: agrèmens

English

Alternative forms

• agrèmens

Etymology

Borrowed from French agrémens.

Noun

agrémens pl (plural only)

1. Agreeable qualities or circumstances.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 205:

     When to this was added the state dinners, to which she was always regularly invited, and held as a distinguished guest, and it was remembered how seldom this occurred in other houses since her widowhood, the vacillating mind took a new direction, and it was voted an impracticable thing to part with the baroness and her atmosphere of agrémens.

   • 1858, The National Magazine:

     Arthur Young, that shrewd plucky traveller, smiled as we do at the tedious repetition of the agrémens of beautiful Paris.

   • 1858, "The Life of George Tucker", in The Life and Philosophical Writings of George Tucker (republished in Bristol by Thoemmes Press in 2004), volume 1:

     "The impressions which I had previously conceived were confirmed that there was no place in the world in which the agrémens of life are so accessible at so little cost by an individual who lives only for himself..."

   • 2006, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Room in the Dragon Volant:

     "I was the principal witness for the prosecution in this cause célèbre, with all the agrémens that attend that enviable position."

Anagrams

• germanes

French

Alternative forms

• agréments (modern French)

Noun

agrémens m

1. (archaic, ante 1835) plural of agrément