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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



... Scutari, and English military attache, came up with the Italian attache. A bomb had fallen just before the colonel's house and missed his servant by a hair's-breadth. The Italian was in a room opposite the Crown Prince's palace; he thought that the falling machine was going to crash through the roof, but ...
— The Luck of Thirteen - Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia • Jan Gordon

... departement de l'interieur) paid us a visit previous to his departure; also Mr Charles Alison, Attache to Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople; also Captain Austen ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore

... upon me one day in my room in Copenhagen, looking exceedingly handsome in a tight-fitting waistcoat of blue quilted silk. In the absence of the Swedo-Norwegian Ambassador, he was Charge d'Affaires in Copenhagen, after, in his capacity as diplomatic attache, having been stationed in various parts of the world and, amongst others, for some time in Paris. He could have no warmer admirer of his first songs than myself, and we very frequently spent our evenings together in Bauer's wine room—talking over ...
— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes

... March 14, 1848, Frederick Cavendish, a budding diplomatist, whom Palmerston had appointed as attache at Vienna, remarks: ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... the new-comer cordially. A waiter placed a chair for him, and took his hat. Arthur Singleton was an American, though he had lived abroad so long as to have lost his identity with any particular city or state of his native land. He had been an attache of the American embassy at London for many years. Administrations changed and ambassadors came and went, but Singleton was never molested. It was said that he kept his position on the score of his wide ...
— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson


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