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
He had participated in so many rencontres that almost every warrior possessed a knowledge of his person.
From Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. by John Frost
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
The greatest part of the troops being killed in the different rencontres, the rest were compelled to retreat, which so enraged the cardinal, that he wrote to the viceroy of Naples for reinforcements.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
This determination was hastened by several rencontres which had taken place in the outlying districts.
From The White Squaw by Mayne Reid
