rencontre
noun
rencontres
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pluralof rencontre.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Expos themselves have been missing in action, losing about 90 of 162 rencontres each season.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Washington Irving
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
Both his father and his elder brother are said to have fallen in rencontres with the English during this interval.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Very different in all respects were Julian’s rencontres with others of his old schoolfellows.
From Julian Home by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
