rencontre
Americannoun
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rencontres
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of rencontre
From French
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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
It was annoying, too, to be received at each new rencontre as a surprise--as the reverse of all that had been expected and all that had been, as he feared, hoped.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
Soon after her rencontre with the Swedish vessel, it was said that two English frigates chased off the southern coast an American sloop-of-war, and while in pursuit were struck with a heavy squall.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
With our subsequent rencontre at Sir John's, you are already acquainted.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Sophia Reeve
The Expos themselves have been missing in action, losing about 90 of 162 rencontres each season.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such trivial amusing incidents and rencontres as these were matters of almost daily occurrence to me in those days, and I fear that I incur the reproach of padding by narrating these.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
Besides, Mr. Mackenzie defended himself, and gave his persecutors nothing to boast of in the rencontres.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
But in all his rencontres with the false christians, he adhered strictly to the spirit of Socrates, as being perfectly congenial to his own.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems
It is owing to this habit of mine that I often make interesting rencontres in the middle of streets.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Carl Van Vechten
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