rencontre

American  

[ren-kon-ter, rahn-kawn-tr^uh] / rɛnˈkɒn tər, rɑ̃ˈkɔ̃ trə /

noun

rencontres plural

1. rencounter.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• rencontres
  plural

Etymology

Origin of rencontre

From French

Example Sentences

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

Nowhere indeed, for I was to have another rencontre that night, with which my mind mixed him up, and which must be told because of the light afterwards thrown upon it.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.

Conflagration.—Comparison of the two islands.—A rencontre at sea.—Trade-wind.—Christmas at sea.—"A man overboard."—Cingalese canoe.—Arrival at Pont de Galle, in Ceylon.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

Having taken leave of the general, therefore, he proceeded toward home, and announced their rencontre to his wife.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various