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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Therefore, since I was at hand, and would be a wealthy man some day, and indeed even now did very well on my French rentes, he had set his heart on this.
From Oddsfish! by Robert Hugh Benson
First among these were the annual payments commonly known as the cens et rentes.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
During her life with Lady Henry she had saved the whole of her own small rentes.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward
I would have sold my rentes; she should have had some of the principal, and I would have bought a life-annuity with the rest.
From Father Goriot by Ellen Marriage
Their annual payment of cens et rentes rarely amounted to more than a very few dollars.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong
