0 a sudden feeling of excitement or fear, especially when you think that something is about to happen: --
As the music stopped, a frisson of excitement ran through the crowd.
Those announcements sparked off a frisson throughout the medical world and the globe.
A frisson goes through us all as we see him lower his bulky frame into the seat.
It is unexciting and does not give me even a frisson of either amusement or despair.
To begin with one had a frisson of alarm at this situation.
The thing that he said that produced that frisson was that every film that needed any support had to achieve his sanction.
If the great sporting occasions were not free to all, that feeling—that frisson—would be lost.
Although we had our moments—a frisson—now and then, those were an attempt to clarify an immensely complicated system of law.
The words "federal"and"federalism" cause many people to experience a frisson.
