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noun
A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: law
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noun
A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fencing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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noun
The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To send or give back.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, transitive
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verb
To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: law
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noun
(fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stab, thrust, knife thrust
noun
a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: coach house, carriage house
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Broader terms: outbuilding
noun
an expensive or high-class hackney
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hackney, hackney carriage, hackney coach
History
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”).
From French remise.
