Attache
[ɑ:tɑ:'ʃei]
Definition
(noun.) a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission.
Typist: Wanda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.
Checked by Jerome
Examples
- Then she figured in a waltz with Monsieur de Klingenspohr, the Prince of Peterwaradin's cousin and attache. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why didn't he use his interest to get Ladislaw made an attache or sent to India? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You don't drink, James, the ex-attache continued. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- However this may be, there can be no doubt that a peculiar artificiality attaches to much of what is learned in schools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Habit attaches me to Fred Lamb. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In equivalent language, less intellectual or educative quality attaches to the training. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Besides, George Gaunt and I were intimate in early life; he was my junior when we were attaches at Pumpernickel together. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The fact is that there is one really serious flaw in this evidence to which our friend attaches so much importance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Many women are lovelier than Thomasin, she said, so not much attaches to that. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I understand, though, Mr. Letterblair continued, that she attaches no importance to the money. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Her complexion was exquisitely fair, but the noble cast of her head and features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to fair beauties. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A grimly humorous incident, as related by one of the laboratory staff, attaches to No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Rosanna