delassement

He looks upon this as his chief delassement from official work.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

Oriental Club; but Clive (who had taken a trip to Paris with his father, as a delassement after the fatigues incident on this great work), when he saw it, after a month's interval, declared the thing was rubbish, and massacred Britons, Malays, Dragoons, Artillery and all.

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

You know I don't half like the other kind of drawing, except as a delassement: but if you chose to be a weaver, like my grandfather, I should not say you nay.

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

Americans have either no leisure, or no inclination for those moments of delassement that all other people, I believe, indulge in.

Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

The judicial costume is appropriate in every respect; but I could not help smiling, the other morning, upon meeting my friend the judge, standing before the door of his house, in the open street -- with a hairy cap on -- leisurely smoking his pipe -- And wherein consisted the harm of such a _delassement_?

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

Oriental Club; but Clive (who had taken a trip to Paris with his father, as a delassement after the fatigues incident on this great work), when he saw it, after a month’s interval, declared the thing was rubbish, and massacred Britons, Malays, Dragoons,

The Newcomes 2006

You know I don’t half like the other kind of drawing, except as a delassement: but if you chose to be a weaver, like my grandfather,

The Newcomes 2006