remise
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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(tr) law to give up or relinquish (a right, claim, etc); surrender
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fencing to make a renewed thrust on the same lunge after the first has missed
noun
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fencing a second thrust made on the same lunge after the first has missed
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obsolete a hired carriage
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obsolete a coach house
Etymology
Origin of remise
1475–85; < Middle French, feminine past participle of remettre to put back, deliver < Latin remittere to remit
Example Sentences
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Jon Levy—who I would be remise if I didn’t mention once worked as an informercial “Before and After” model—hosted his first dinner party almost four years ago.
From Forbes ● Jun. 11, 2013
Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the last century the courtyard used to be filled with posting-carriages, and the well-known remise lay here in a corner.
From A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg by Fitzgerald, Percy Hethrington
It is better to go in a private carriage, or in a remise, if one can, but few hesitate, when their means are limited, about using the former.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
He bawled out that it was not enough; he had been de remise; he had taken me for someone else, being waked so suddenly; he had been bespoken by another gentleman.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
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