Definitions

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  • noun warmed leftover food
  • noun a rehash

Etymologies

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French réchauffé

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Examples

  • At other times the open space before us was diversified by the arrival and the departure of pilgrims, but it was a mere rechauffe of the feast, and had lost all power to please.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Brooks's to hear a rechauffe of these things, or assist at the incense offered to Charles, or his benediction and salut to those he protects.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • A good rechauffe 'of calf's head may be made in the following manner:

    The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters

  • -- I did not go to-day [to] the House, but there has been there a rechauffe of yesterday's debate.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • A rechauffe of the dishes served to out-at-elbow enthusiasts in the provincial literary chambers, compounded of the effusions of your Voltaires and Jean-Jacques and such dirty-fingered scribblers.

    Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Secondly, by his passion for "popular" renderings of abstruse and difficult subjects, by confounding the hastiest rechauffe of scientific truisms with the slowly-matured conceptions of the original thinker, he retards true culture and lessens the possible amount of really abiding work.

    The Vice of Reading 1903

  • I can no more go to Brooks's to hear a rechauffe of these things, or assist at the incense offered to Charles, or his benediction and salut to those he protects.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • I did not go to-day [to] the House, but there has been there a rechauffe of yesterday's debate.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • L'amour de Dieu deborde dans ses pages charmantes, dont la lecture rechauffe le coeur.

    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

  • The list of the families of Manasseh is an artificial _rechauffe_ of elements gleaned anywhere; Maachah passes for the wife as well as the sister of Machir, but being a

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

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