rencontre
Americannoun
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rencontres
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Etymology
Origin of rencontre
From French
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In an extraordinary passage, Silvio recalls that his adversary was late for their rencontre.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2017
This was in New York bay, where yachts, sailboats, rowboats, tugs, scows interfered with the decorum of such rencontre.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a town in Tuscany the holy friar had a sudden and strange rencontre with the past.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
A week from the night of their rencontre in Summerlad's bungalow, Bellamy called—first telephoning to ask if he might—to tell Lucinda he was leaving for New York the next morning.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
If they come back after that rencontre, they will be a little more tolerant of the cowardice of those whom they called weaker brethren.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
The Expos themselves have been missing in action, losing about 90 of 162 rencontres each season.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both his father and his elder brother are said to have fallen in rencontres with the English during this interval.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Records of these rencontres of the U.B.C.’s will be found in tables at the end of this volume, together with a history of Henley past and future.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
I acknowledge that the higher thoughts, which place those rencontres in their most criminal point of view, had then but little influence with me.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
But in all his rencontres with the false christians, he adhered strictly to the spirit of Socrates, as being perfectly congenial to his own.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
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