retiracy

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Retiracy \Re*tir"a*cy\, n.
   Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.
   [U.S.] --Bartlett.
   [1913 Webster]

         What one of our great men used to call dignified
         retiracy.                                --C. A.
                                                  Bristed.
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