darrein
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of darrein
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(historical, not-comparable)In the names of legal actions, pleas, writs, etc.: final, last; dernier.
“the assize of darrein presentment”
“a plea puis darrein continuance”
“darrein resort”
“The. xiii. Chap. Asſyſes of darreyn preſentement ſhalbe taken alway before our iuſtices of the benche / and there ſhalbe determyned.”
“Therefore Ultima resolutio est gladius, War is the darrein resort of every wise and good Prince; unto which his Majesty was necessitated, they being the first Aggressors, and that upon such clear and pregnant evidence, as no King ever undertook a more just War.”
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman derreyn, dreyn; from Old French darrein, darrain (Modern French dernier); from an assumed Late Latin *deretrānus (“to hinder”), from dē (“from, away from”) + retrō (“back, backwards; before, formerly”).
Words you can make from darrein
99 playable · top: DRAINER (8 pts)
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30 words- AIDE 5 pts
- ARID 5 pts
- DARE 5 pts
- DARN 5 pts
- DEAN 5 pts
- DEAR 5 pts
- DENI 5 pts
- DINE 5 pts
- DIRE 5 pts
- IDEA 5 pts
- IRED 5 pts
- NARD 5 pts
- NERD 5 pts
- NIDE 5 pts
- RAID 5 pts
- RAND 5 pts
- READ 5 pts
- REND 5 pts
- RIDE 5 pts
- RIND 5 pts
- AIRN 4 pts
- ARIE 4 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- RAIN 4 pts
- RANI 4 pts
- RARE 4 pts
- REAR 4 pts
- REIN 4 pts
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