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Attache   /ˌætəʃˈeɪ/   Listen
Attache

noun
1.
A specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission.
2.
A shallow and rectangular briefcase.  Synonym: attache case.



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"Attache" Quotes from Famous Books



... know nor care much for his superior officer, he agreed to go with him promptly, and proceeded to say good-by to his friends and to make his preparations. Captain Travis was so delighted with getting such a clever young gentleman for his secretary, that he referred to him to his friends as "my attache of legation;" nor did he lessen that gentleman's dignity by telling any one that the attache's salary was to be five hundred dollars a year. His own salary was only fifteen hundred dollars; and though his brother-in-law, Senator Rainsford, tried his best to get the amount raised, he was unsuccessful. ...
— Cinderella - And Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... think that I am not familiar with yours? Do you want me to present you with a list of your mistresses? From the wife of the Bulgarian attache in 1887 down to Mademoiselle Therese Gredun—if that be her real name—who retained the honors of her office up to last Spring at least. It seems likely that I know more than you even, for I can give you a practically complete list ...
— The Lonely Way--Intermezzo--Countess Mizzie - Three Plays • Arthur Schnitzler
... actress; one can see she's studied Kaulbach," said a diplomatic attache in the group round the ambassador's wife. "Did you notice ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... was asked if there was any evidence that Stahl had ever been in the employ of the German Consul-General at this port or of Captain Boy-Ed, Naval Attache of the German Embassy, who is said to be the head of the German Secret Service here. Mr. Wood refused to discuss either question. When he was asked if the investigation promised to involve any man of ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... that I learned from an attache at the embassy, whom I had sometimes seen at Marguerite's, that the poor ...
— Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) • Alexandre Dumas, fils


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