From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfrissonfris‧son /ˈfriːsɒn $ friːˈsoʊn/ noun [countable usually singular] EXCITEDa sudden feeling of excitement or fear SYN shiverfrisson of A frisson of alarm went through her.
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frisson• Up the garden path and a frisson of unease: there is no house, but a vista of a majestic lake.• A frisson went around the crowd: this was more like it.• She remembered in the dentist's waiting-room her frisson of fear.• Naturally, he wanted to impress his colleagues, set up a little frisson, as he'd have put it.• We are too impertinent with the past, counting on it in this way for a reliable frisson.• Virginia brushed the frisson of pique aside.frisson of• A frisson of alarm went down my back.Origin frisson (1700-1800) French Latin frictio; → FRICTION 