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remise en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/ (UK)
  • /ɹɪˈmaɪz/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

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”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.

Forms

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remise en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/ (UK)
  • /ɹɪˈmaɪz/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

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”).

Meanings

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

Forms

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remised Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
remised Tense=Past lexicographic

remise en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɪˈmʌɪz/ (UK)
  • /ɹɪˈmaɪz/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French remise.

Meanings

  1. (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 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
    • [T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […]. 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
  2. (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. 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
  3. A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
  4. The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.

Forms

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