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 conclusion, I may add, was fully confirmed some few weeks after, by my witnessing a still more interesting rencontre between members of the several races.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
At a town in Tuscany the holy friar had a sudden and strange rencontre with the past.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
To Agnes the rencontre was an extreme annoyance, for she wanted to be quite quiet, and this was what Frederick Stephenson never permitted her to be.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
The Expos themselves have been missing in action, losing about 90 of 162 rencontres each season.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Fortunate creature!” he said aloud; “whatever may be the troubles of your lot, you are at least safe from exasperating rencontres with your future mother-in-law!”
From The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
There is no risk of such rencontres in Dauphiny, whose valleys remain in almost as primitive a state as they were hundreds of years ago.
From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles
"To worse rencontres than this, I fear," Madame said, darting a look from her fine eyes.
From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman
I do not mention several other hostile rencontres, for I should find neither any end to them, nor to the numerous perils I encountered.
From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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