rencontre
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of rencontre
From French
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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
Hence came the warlike meaning—which it still retains—of the word rencontre.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
It was this new rencontre which had so upset her.
From The Maker of Opportunities by Gibbs, George
In the afternoon occurred the first rencontre with Indians.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
The Expos themselves have been missing in action, losing about 90 of 162 rencontres each season.
From Time Magazine Archive
This determination was hastened by several rencontres which had taken place in the outlying districts.
From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne
Such trivial amusing incidents and rencontres as these were matters of almost daily occurrence to me in those days, and I fear that I incur the reproach of padding by narrating these.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Precisely, therefore, on account of these rencontres of the two, the family went as little as possible into society.
From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)
Some instances of insult from the populace were experienced by their English visitors; some personal rencontres, which led to duels, did take place; but these smacked of open and honorable hostility.
From The Crayon Papers by Irving, Washington
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