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French
Pronunciation
Participle
attenant
- present participle of attenir
Adjective
attenant (feminine attenante, masculine plural attenants, feminine plural attenantes)
- adjacent (à to)
1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:Le palais épiscopal de Digne était attenant à l’hôpital.- — The Bishop's Palace in Digne was next to the hospital.
- 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1; translated 1908 by anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (ed.), as The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 ed., Dedalus, →ISBN:
Cette nuit, pendant que le maître travaillait dans son laboratoire, on a tenté d’assassiner Mlle Stangerson, qui reposait dans une chambre attenante à ce laboratoire.- — Last night, whilst the Professor was in his laboratory, an attempt was made on the life of Mademoiselle Stangerson, who was sleeping in an adjoining room.
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