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arrêt

American  
[uh-ray, -ret] / əˈreɪ, -ˈrɛt /

noun

arrêts plural
  1. a judgment, sentence, or decree issued by a civil court or a sovereign.


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In 1742 another arrêt granted privileges for twenty years to both these establishments, and Marie Moreau dying in 1743 left Dominique her business.

From The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods by Chaffers, William

Arles had its court of love, more splendid than now, and its arrêt d’amour was more binding than the charms of the brightest eyes that shine in Provence to-day.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

See the arrêt in Bouche, Hist. de Provence, ubi supra.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

He had never been a strong man, and at fifty-three he received, at his doctor's hands, his arrêt de mort.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The new Parliament has dared to remonstrate against a declaration obtained by the Chancellor for setting aside an arrêt of 1762, occasioned by the excommunication of Parma.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

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