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  • noun Plural form of remise.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of remise.

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Examples

  • This technique implied the existence of garages specializing in “stage-automobile” operations, but I never could discover the remises he used.

    The novel and the car 2009

  • D'autre part, les réformes sur la Gouvernance inspirées par l'Occident sont actuellement remises en cause, du fait de la crise.

    Archive 2009-04-10 2009

  • Stuart Neville sets this story in Dublin where an ex-hitman remises about his past and who is also harangued by his mistakes as 12 innocent souls continue to be seen by him.

    Mihir’s Top Reads of 2009 Liviu 2009

  • Stuart Neville sets this story in Dublin where an ex-hitman remises about his past and who is also harangued by his mistakes as 12 innocent souls continue to be seen by him.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Liviu 2009

  • This technique implied the existence of garages specializing in “stage-automobile” operations, but I never could discover the remises he used.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Sinon quelques problemes avec des pourcentages, des remises, du benefices, de la perte ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • Before I went in to present myself, I went to look in the remises at his carriage.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

  • Nothing, for instance, forms a stronger or more distinct feature in one's recollections of the south of France, than the enormous remises which are annexed to every paltry inn on the road from Lyons to the southward, and which serve both as warehouse and stable to the hosts of stout Provençal carriers, who travel with wine, oil, and merchandise to the interior.

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

  • Besides the want of means of conveyance (for there are no cabs, and very few _remises_) and good food and attendance, any one wanting to entertain would almost need to build a house, so impossible is it to collect more than half a dozen people inside an ordinary-sized house here.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • Across the courtyard, covered with snow fallen during the might, which glittered and sparkled in the brilliant wintry sunshine, grooms and stable-boys hurried between écuries and remises, currying Mr. Jefferson's horses and sponging off Mr. Jefferson's handsome carriage, with which he had provided himself on setting up his establishment as minister of the infant federation of States to the court of the sixteenth Louis.

    Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe

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