remise
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- 8
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- 9
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Definition of remise
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (formal, transitive)To send or give back.
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verb
- (formal, transitive)To send or give back.
- (transitive)To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.
noun
- (obsolete)A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.
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(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 […].”
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(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.”
- A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
- The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
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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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