v. Obs. [a. F. attouche-r to touch on, f. à to + toucher, OF. tochier to touch.] To touch (lightly). Hence
Attouching vbl. sb., Attouchment, the action of touching lightly, contact. (All in Caxton only.)
c. 1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIV. i. And [Circe] attouchyd the water in fanstosme & syth departed. Ibid. (1483), G. de la Tour, D vj. So many euylle dedes bicomen by foolisshe attouchementis. Ibid. (1491), Vitas Patr. (W. de W.), I. i. 6/2. He embracyd and kyssyd her, In makynge fowle attowchynges.
