Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In horticulture, blooming a second time late in the season: noting a class of roses.
  • noun In horticulture, a hybrid perpetual rose which blooms twice in a season.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Hort.) Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.

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  • adjective botany that flowers more than once in each season.

Etymologies

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French rising again.

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Examples

  • Subtle and persistent with notes recalling the remontant blossoms of trousers, socks, and purloined classified documents, this perfume captures just the right balance of national security/insecurity with exquisitely subtle layers of anxiety, perspiration, and criminal intent.

    "Does he have sex appeal?... Can you smell the English leather on this guy?" Ann Althouse 2007

  • Un “canard à la menthe” is excellent for digestion, travel sickness, for “remontant” → 'pick-me-up' … It is tonic, refreshing and very enjoyable!

    canard - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Bien souvent, cet examen du merveilleux nous mène à une réalité éternelle, remontant à la source de toute chose et de toute vie.

    Pour le réenchantement du monde - Une introduction à Chesterton 2008

  • Notre premi鑢e journ閑 fut � travers un beau pays, en remontant le long de la Marisce, que nous pass鈓es � un bac.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • She sent it sailing safely to the branch of a remontant shrub rose.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • For permanent beds, the so-called hybrid perpetual or remontant roses, blooming principally in

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • If one is pruning the hybrid perpetual or remontant roses (which are now the common garden roses), he cuts back all very vigorous canes perhaps one-half their length immediately after the June bloom is past in order to produce new, strong shoots for fall flowering, and also to make good bottoms for the next year's bloom.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • Quant aux nouveautes mises en oeuvre par la Revolution Francaise on les retrouve une a une, en remontant d'age en age, chez les philosopher du XVIII/e siecle, chez les grands penseurs du XVI/e, chez certains Peres d'Eglise et jusque dans la Republique de Platon.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • Dans ses eloquentes lecons, l'histoire des sciences est devenue l'histoire meme de l'esprit humain; car, remontant aux causes de leurs progres et de leurs erreurs, c'est toujours dans les bonnes ou mauvaises routes suivies par l'esprit humain, qu'il trouve ces causes.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • Quant aux nouveautés mises en œuvre par la Révolution Française on les retrouve une à une, en remontant d'âge en âge, chez les philosophes du XVIIIe siècle, chez les grands penseurs du XVIe, chez certains Pères d'Église et jusque dans la République de Platon. —

    A Lecture on the Study of History John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

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  • Nothing more pleases the gossip consumer

    Than meeting afresh a once-dead rumor.

    More pungent than constant

    The whisper remontant

    Perfumes the air like a graveyard bloomer.

    June 26, 2014