tendance


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tendance

(ˈtɛndəns)
n
1. rare care and attention; ministration
2. obsolete attendants collectively
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Tendance

 attendants collectively; a train or retinue, 1607.
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But he had deliberately incurred the hindrance, having made up his mind that it was now time for him to adorn his life with the graces of female companionship, to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy, and to secure in this, his culminating age, the solace of female tendance for his declining years.
First she inquired for the lighter kinds of employment, and, as acceptance in any variety of these grew hopeless, applied next for the less light, till, beginning with the dairy and poultry tendance that she liked best, she ended with the heavy and course pursuits which she liked least--work on arable land: work of such roughness, indeed, as she would never have deliberately voluteered for.
Mynheer Calf, too, becomes Monsieur de Veau in the like manner; he is Saxon when he requires tendance, and takes a Norman name when he becomes matter of enjoyment.''
The sensations of bodily sickness, in a comfortable bed, and with the tendance of the good-natured landlady, made a sort of respite for her; such a respite as there is in the faint weariness which obliges a man to throw himself on the sand instead of toiling onward under the scorching sun.
So spake our Sire, and by his count'nance seemd Entring on studious thoughts abstruse, which EVE Perceaving where she sat retir'd in sight, With lowliness Majestic from her seat, And Grace that won who saw to wish her stay, Rose, and went forth among her Fruits and Flours, To visit how they prosper'd, bud and bloom, Her Nurserie; they at her coming sprung And toucht by her fair tendance gladlier grew.
Cette amelioration de la qualite coincide avec une tendance generale a la hausse sur le marche des cryptos.
En effet, si la tendance globale est positive notamment au niveau des institutionnels, les petits porteurs ne sont pas encore completement seduits alors que les etrangers semblent se concentrer sur les marches classes dans la categorie des emergents.
France's government has allocated half a million dollars for the preservation and restoration of France's oldest Jewish building, discovered by accident under a parking lot in 1976, reported JTA, citing French publication Tendance Ouest.
Los Angeles, CA, March 26, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Fevrie, an online based fashion house that speaks to the modern woman and embodies a true collaboration between the sophistication of Europe and the lively spirit of America, announced their launching of The Fevrie Tendance Project on Kickstarter.
Dans le premier chapitre du rapport, on analyse les donnees d'enquetes nationales de Statistique Canada pour conclure sans equivoque a l'absence d'une "tendance negative ou deconcertante" de l'obesite et de l'embonpoint.