rencontre
Americannoun
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rencontres
plural
Other Word Forms
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
Not only had the rencontre cost us some precious minutes, but the Gascon, after letting us proceed a little way, followed us.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
It was this new rencontre which had so upset her.
From The Maker of Opportunities by George Gibbs
And, amazed as much at this strange rencontre, as at the man's boldness, I sprang up and strode forwards, forgetting, in an impulse of righteous anger, the office he came to do.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
The Expos themselves have been missing in action, losing about 90 of 162 rencontres each season.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here in old days 'satisfaction' was given and taken; and a satirical medico declared that forty years of rencontres had not produced a single casualty.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
While he was engaged in dressing my wound, he rambled on about the reckless habits that made such rencontres possible.
From That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever
But extraordinary rencontres are commonplace in Borrow’s career.
From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by John Sampson
We could enter largely on the history of this active species, and quote many a stirring anecdote of travellers' rencontres with this fearless animal.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
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