From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfrissonfris‧son /ˈfriːsɒn $ friːˈsoʊn/ noun [countable usually singular]EXCITEDa sudden feeling of excitement or fearSYN shiverfrisson ofA frisson of alarm went through her.Examples from the Corpusfrisson• Up the garden path and a frisson of unease: there is no house, but a vista of a majesticlake.• 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 reliablefrisson.• Virginia brushed the frisson of piqueaside.frisson of• A frisson ofalarm went down my back.Originfrisson(1700-1800)FrenchLatinfrictio; → FRICTION