remise

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈmʌɪz/ (UK)
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/ɹɪˈmʌɪz/ (UK) · /ɹɪˈmaɪz/ (US)

Definition of remise

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (formal, transitive)To send or give back.
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verb

  1. (formal, transitive)To send or give back.
  2. (transitive)To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.

noun

  1. (obsolete)A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
  2. (historical)A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
    “long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head”
    “[T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […].”
  3. (obsolete)A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
    “[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.”
  4. A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
  5. The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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”).

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