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
I have been guilty of another piece of extravagance in hiring a carosse de remise, for which I pay twelve livres a day.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
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
Dear ——, After a consultation with François, I sent the carriage to get a set of entirely new wheels, Brussels being a coach-making town, and taking a voiture de remise, we drove down to Antwerp.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper
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