Definition of “frisson”

Above all, though, Mrs Kerry represented something absent this week, a frisson of unpredictability and a breath of controversy.

Alastair wasn't the only man in the place who felt a frisson of anxiety at the way this speech was going.

And in fact it was the frisson of excitement derived from the politics that made the drama work.

As the recent film The Day After Tomorrow showed, there is nothing like a good old disaster scenario for a bit of frisson.

Fearing I had been brusque to the point of discourtesy I then added hastily: `I'm not denying the reality of your frisson.

I remember visiting Canterbury once and getting the most extraordinary frisson on the spot where Becket was killed.

I thought the shudder was simply part of the frisson I was already experiencing from the breathtaking selection.

In July, there was a last frisson of tension with the outgoing chairman over Friedrich's working methods.

Mention Wimbledon to any Evertonian over the age of 20, and a frisson of fear will run down his or her spine.