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
Both the remise and the renewal are valid only when the adversary’s riposte does not hit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Redige par Prosper Ricard, edition remise a jour par Magdeleine Parisot.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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