Remise
//ɹɪˈmaɪz// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A return or surrender of a claim, property etc. obsolete
- 2 A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. historical
"long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head"
- 3 (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte) wordnet
- 4 A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise. obsolete
"[H]e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot."
- 5 a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles wordnet
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- 6 A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
- 7 an expensive or high-class hackney wordnet
- 8 The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
Verb
- 1 To send or give back. transitive
- 2 To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim.
Example
More examples"long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).
Etymology 2
From French remise.
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