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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”).
Verb
remise (third-person singular simple present remises, present participle remising, simple past and past participle remised)
Noun
remise (plural remises)
Etymology 2
Noun
remise (plural remises)
- (now historical) A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. [from 17th c.]
- 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, […]:
- long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- [T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […] .
- (obsolete) A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise. [17th–19th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- [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.
- (fencing) A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm. [from 19th c.]
- (music) The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
remise f
Declension
Declension of remise (soft feminine)
Related terms
- See mise
See also
Further reading
- “remise”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “remise”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
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Noun
remise f (plural remises, diminutive remisetje n)
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the verb remettre. Compare mise.
Participle
remise f sg
Noun
remise f (plural remises)
- delivery, handing over; handover
- remission; reduction
- discount, reduction
- shed, carriage house
- deferment, postponement
Etymology 2
From the verb remiser.
Verb
remise
- inflection of remiser:
Further reading
- “remise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
remise m (plural remises)
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