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Remise

noun
1.
An expensive or high-class hackney.
2.
A small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles.  Synonyms: carriage house, coach house.
3.
(fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte).





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"Remise" Quotes from Famous Books



... a variety of ways, when you have assured yourself that he is invulnerable to a direct attack, not to be flurried by a fierce onslaught, or slow enough to let you score a "remise"—that is, a second hit—the first having been parried, ...
— Broad-Sword and Single-Stick • R. G. Allanson-Winn
... qu'elle y verra une nouvelle preuve de mon desir de m'entendre toujours avec elle avant de prendre une resolution. En remerciant votre Majeste de l'aimable lettre que S.A.R. le Duc de Cambridge m'a remise de sa part, je la prie de recevoir la nouvelle assurance de mes sentiments de tendre et respectueux attachement avec lesquels je suis de votre Majeste, ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume III (of 3), 1854-1861 • Queen of Great Britain Victoria
... enormous remises which are annexed to every paltry inn on the road from Lyons to the southward, and which serve both as warehouse and stable to the hosts of stout Provencal carriers, who travel with wine, oil, and merchandise to the interior. The remise at Vienne was sixty feet square, without compartment; its roof-timbers were worthy of Westminster Hall, and for ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes


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