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touché

[too-shey]
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interjection
  1. Fencing. (an expression used to indicate a hit or touch.)
  2. (an expression used for acknowledging a telling remark or rejoinder.)
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Origin of touché

1920–25; < French: literally, touched
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Examples from the Web for touche

Historical Examples

  • That is euyn as very a touche of a pharesey as any can be.Cannius.

    Two Dyaloges (c. 1549)

    Desiderius Erasmus

  • Then, without allowing him time to shape an answer, "Touche!"

  • Tout autre malheur ne me touche plus fortement: mais celui-l me touche au cur et aux entrailles.

    Wagner as I Knew Him

    Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger

  • Seulement, cette originalit, par bien des saillies, touche celle de Tristan Corbire.

    Instigations

    Ezra Pound

  • So I call that triangle drawen in a circle, whose corners do touche the circumference of the circle.

British Dictionary definitions for touche

touché

interjection
  1. an acknowledgment that a scoring hit has been made in a fencing competition
  2. an acknowledgment of the striking home of a remark or the capping of a witticism
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Word Origin

from French, literally: touched
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Word Origin and History for touche

1904, "exclamation acknowledging a hit in fencing," from French touché, past participle of toucher "to hit," from Old French touchier "to hit" (see touch (v.)).

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