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
"Ah, it was a vile remise," eagerly answered a dozen voices.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
But under the protection of the fencing mask a new school of foil-play was evolved, one in which swiftness and inveteracy of attack and parry, of riposte, remise, counter-riposte and reprise, assumed an all-important character.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 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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