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renverse en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪnˈvɜː(ɹ)s/

Etymology

From Old French renverser. Equivalent to re- + inverse.

Meanings

1. (dated, not-comparable) Backwards, contourné, facing the opposite direction (sinister/dexter) than usual.
   • Samuel Coggan. Lisbon, May 19, 1712; letter to David Jeffries de Co. Round seal, a lion rampant renversé. 1877, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 58:
   • The arms [on the 1790 Gelderland duit] may be thus blazoned: Party per pale, 1. azure, a lion rampant or, armed and langued gules, 2. or, a lion rampant renverse sable, armed and langued as before. 1909, Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, page 218:

Synonyms

renversé

renverse en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹɪnˈvɜː(ɹ)s/

Etymology

From Old French renverser. Equivalent to re- + inverse.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of reverse.
   alt of reverse
   • whose shield he bears renverst 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41:

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