[Fr., pa. pple. of attacher to ATTACH.] One attached to, connected with, on the staff of, another person or thing; spec. one attached to the suite of an ambassador.
1835. H. Greville, Leaves fr. Diary, 55. To offer this post to Fraser, now paid attaché at Vienna.
1859. Masson, Milton, I. 404. [He] had come up to London and become an attaché of the court.
1876. A. Arnold, in Contemp. Rev., June, 42. One is surprised to see English attachés skating in Tehran.
1883. Scot. Rev., Sept., 282. The attachés of a leading daily paper in New York.
Hence, Attachéship [see -SHIP].
1857. Thackeray, Fitzbood. Prof., Wks. IV. 26.
1882. Standard, 25 Oct., 5/4. Colonel T. Gonne … has accepted the Military Attachéship at Constantinople.
