noun, masculine/fʁi.sɔ̃/plural: frissons
a shiver caused by cold or fever; a shiver or thrill of fright that can be strangely pleasurable, as when reading good horror fiction; an experience of intense excitement
Inherited from Late Latin *frīctiōnem, from Latin frīgeō (“to be cold”). Unrelated to the Classical Latin frictiō, borrowed as French friction.