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rencontre

[ren-kon-ter; French rahn-kawn-truh]
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noun, plural ren·con·tres [ren-kon-terz; French rahn-kawn-truh] /rɛnˈkɒn tərz; French rɑ̃ˈkɔ̃ trə/.
  1. rencounter.
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Origin of rencontre

From French
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Historical Examples

  • But for that matter there was nothing particularly astonishing in this rencontre.

    The Black Bag

    Louis Joseph Vance

  • By another accident, if I dare so call it, I fell upon this rencontre.

    Sir Jasper Carew

    Charles James Lever

  • But what's the issue upon which the rencontre shall take place?

    John Splendid

    Neil Munro

  • Not suspecting what was to follow, I was delighted at the rencontre.

    Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry

    Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

  • What a rencontre this was, and what a pleasure to travel with the daughter of Tuffnell.