Definitions for intendance

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intendance in·tend·ance

Spelling: [in-ten-duh ns]

IPA: /ɪnˈtɛn dəns/

Intendance is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in intendance (acdeeinnnt).

Definitions for intendance

noun

1. an administrative department, especially one in the government system introduced by the French statesman Richelieu during the 17th century, or the officials in charge of it.
2. the official quarters of an intendant.
3. the function of an intendant; superintendence; intendancy.

Origin of intendance

From French, dating back to 1730-40; See origin at intendant, -ance

Examples for intendance

She walked lame, and must use a stick, and we issued forth towards the intendance, Mathilde remaining behind.

Doltaire's imprisonment in a room of the intendance was not so mysterious as suggestive.

Another, he come and say, 'Voban, he can not keep away from the intendance.

I have now a slice of the intendance for my own, and we shall breakfast like squirrels in a loft.

She found a pretense to call upon Barbaroux, then with his friends at the intendance.

He would of preference have stayed in the intendance had he known that pitfalls and traps were at every footstep.

This is the second time he has been feasted at the intendance when he should have been in prison.

Defects in administration by the intendance, and general obstructiveness in that branch of the service.

Arriving at the intendance, he had awaited Doltaire's coming.

Yet at this very time Doltaire was living in the intendance, and, as he had told Alixe, not without some personal danger.