remise
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
remise
n 1: an expensive or high-class hackney
2: a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other
vehicles [syn: {coach house}, {carriage house}, {remise}]
3: (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when
your opponent fails to riposte)
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Remise \Re*mise"\, n.
1. A house for covered carriages; a chaise house. --Sterne.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary
fiacre; -- so called because kept in a remise. --Cooper.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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