Ambience
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the mood, character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu:
The restaurant had a delightful ambiance.
that which surrounds or encompasses; environment.
Contemporary Examples
The décor is clean and simple and the ambience is bustling and laid back at the same time.
Fresh Picks Laurent Tourondel November 3, 2010
The ambience at the FBI was formal, no nonsense, and strictly business.
J. Edgar Hoover Unmasked Sandra McElwaine November 6, 2011
This week, they launched a review section that will allow users to rate dispensaries on things like “quality” and “ambience.”
Colorado Weed Dispensaries Celebrate ‘Green Friday’ Abby Haglage November 27, 2014
Her collection, which showcased on Fashion Week’s opening night, was titled “ambience—The Land, The Woman, and her Man.”
Pakistan’s Daring Fashion Week Anam Mansuri April 10, 2010
The food here also is delicious and imaginative, but the ambience is 180-degrees different.
Holy Molé: Tucson’s Mexican Food with a Kick Jane & Michael Stern June 28, 2014
Historical Examples
Page 39 word “lambence” changed to “ambience” (no more than a faint ambience) meaning a faint light.
She Knew He Was Coming Kris Neville
noun
the atmosphere of a place
n.
1797, from French ambiance (see ambient). Cf. ambiance.
n.
1923, a reborrowing of the French form of ambience, used in art writing as a term meaning “atmospheric effect of an arrangement” (see ambient).
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