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
Veuillez agr�er mes remerc�ments de la remise de cette carte qui m'a doublement int�ress� en raison de son origine et des localit�s qu'elle repr�sente.
From Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 With Instructions for Collecting, Preparing, and Forwarding Objects of Natural History Written by The Professors Administrators of The Museum Of Natural History At Paris. And Instructions Relative to Anthropology and Zoology by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore
La copie de la note officiellement remise à Belgrade a été communiquée par l'Ambassadeur d'Autriche an Gouvernement Français.
From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History
We saw the carriage safely put into the remise, and retired to rest.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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