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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

You shall go in a remise de ver, or glass-coach, as round as a pumpkin, but you shall not go in glass slippers, like Cinderella, because they are not pleasant to walk in.

From Valerie by Marryat, Frederick

Three days after, and the phaeton was a voiture de remise in the Rue Lepelletier.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

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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