réchauffé
Americannoun
plural
réchauffés-
a warmed-up dish of food.
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anything old or stale brought into service again.
noun
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warmed-up leftover food
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old, stale, or reworked material
Etymology
Origin of réchauffé
First recorded in 1795–1805; from French, past participle of réchauffer, equivalent to r(e)- re- + échauffer “to warm”; see chafe
Vocabulary lists containing rechauffe
Example Sentences
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The drama is a mere réchauffé of Massinger's Fatal Dowry.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
The last lecture on the recent German writers is a mere réchauffé of the Essays.
From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John
The piece is a réchauffé of a mediæval farce, which has the credit of being the first play not a "mystery" or a miracle piece in the records of the French drama.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
Your method is certainly characterized by humility: for it consists in merely serving up to the British public a réchauffé of Westcott and Hort's Textual Theory.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
It is useless to offer articles that are nothing more than a réchauffé of encyclopædic facts.
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora
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