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Remise

noun

An expensive or high-class hackney.

A small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles. Synonyms: carriage house, coach house.

(fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte).

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"Remise" Quotes from Famous Books

... visitors. Here again we were told there was no room for us. Had it not been for our valet, we must have slept in the open street; but he recollected a third inn, whither we went immediately, and to our joy found just accommodation sufficient. We saw the carriage safely put into the remise, and retired to rest. The next morning, upon looking out of window, every thing seemed to be faery land. I had scarcely ever before viewed so beautiful a spot. I found the town of Baden perfectly surrounded by six or seven lofty, ...

— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... long day's fasting. We were greeted in the morning with a dismal rain and wet roads as we began the march. After a time, however, it poured down in such torrents that we were obliged to take shelter in a remise by the roadside, where a good woman who addrest us in the unintelligible Provenal kindled up a blazing fire. On climbing a long hill when the storm had abated, we experienced a delightful surprise. Below us lay the broad valley of the Rhone, with its meadows looking fresh ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

Words linked to "Remise" : hackney carriage, passado, thrust, hackney, hackney coach, outbuilding, fencing, lunge, knife thrust, straight thrust, stab