réchauffé
Americannoun
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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
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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
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How could I blame her for preferring Captain Carey's love to my réchauffé affections?
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Stretton, Hesba
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
This farce is a mere réchauffé of The Committee, by the hon. sir R. Howard.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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
Let any man who eats bread at any very cheap place in the capital take warning, if his stomach goes against the idea of a réchauffé of bread from the dust-hole.
From Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by Bartlett, David W.
What vulgarity, what pointless joking, what pitiable attempts to serve up old impromptus réchauffés!
From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Symons, Arthur
Many of the dishes prepared in the chafing-dish are réchauffés of cold cooked meats, including game and fish.
From Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes by Hill, Janet McKenzie
As it is, when it has become a little forgotten, the quarterly reviewers, or their representatives, of the twenty-first century will be able to make endless réchauffés of it.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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