rencontre
Americannoun
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rencontres
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rencontre
From French
Example Sentences
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In an extraordinary passage, Silvio recalls that his adversary was late for their rencontre.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2017
This was in New York bay, where yachts, sailboats, rowboats, tugs, scows interfered with the decorum of such rencontre.
From Time Magazine Archive
This she did not do for some time, but the interval and my thoughts were diverted by a rencontre as disagreeable as it was unexpected.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
Soon after her rencontre with the Swedish vessel, it was said that two English frigates chased off the southern coast an American sloop-of-war, and while in pursuit were struck with a heavy squall.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
A week from the night of their rencontre in Summerlad's bungalow, Bellamy called—first telephoning to ask if he might—to tell Lucinda he was leaving for New York the next morning.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
The Expos themselves have been missing in action, losing about 90 of 162 rencontres each season.
From Time Magazine Archive
How curious are these strange rencontres in life!
From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by Eighth Earl of Elgin James
One of these rencontres in the Haymarket was of a quite extraordinary character.
From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton
Subsequently, she met the same melancholy apparition pacing the corridor into which the room that I had slept in opened; and not liking these rencontres she gave warning and left the place.
From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe
Dresses for these celebrations are things pre-meditated; and the effect produced, and all the little events and rencontres of the day form for each belle, thrilling subjects of retrospection.
From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells
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