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remise

American  
[ri-mahyz] / rɪˈmaɪz /

verb (used with object)

Law.
remised, remising
  1. to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.


remise British  
/ rɪˈmaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) law to give up or relinquish (a right, claim, etc); surrender

  2. fencing to make a renewed thrust on the same lunge after the first has missed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. fencing a second thrust made on the same lunge after the first has missed

  2. obsolete a hired carriage

  3. obsolete a coach house

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of remise

1475–85; < Middle French, feminine past participle of remettre to put back, deliver < Latin remittere to remit

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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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