rente
noun
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
rentes
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pluralof rente.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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When his three per cent. rentes secure him this sum, he retires from business, and gives his younger fellow-creatures a chance.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell
The cens et rentes made up the only payment which the seigneur received each year, but there was another which became due at intervals.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
With the cens went the rentes, the latter being fixed in terms of money, poultry, or produce, or all three combined.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
More than 400 dwellers in the seigniory still pay the annual cens et rentes.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong
The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted by Roberte Crowley dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by W. W. Greg
