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remises

remises is the plural of remise.

remises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of remise.

Meaning of remise

Noun (1)

remise (plural remises)

  1. (obsolete) A return or surrender of a claim, property etc.

Noun (2)

remise (plural remises)

  1. (historical) A house for covered carriages; a chaise house.
    • long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]
  2. (obsolete) A hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.
    • [H]e actually departed from Paris with two or three gentlemen of his acquaintance, who had hired a Remise for a jaunt to Versailles; and having accompanied them as far as the village of Passé, returned in the dusk of the evening on foot.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
  3. A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.
  4. The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.

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Questions about remises

What is remises the plural of?
Remises is the plural of remise.

Words near remises in the dictionary

  1. remirroring
  2. remirrors
  3. remis
  4. remise
  5. remised
  6. remises
  7. remiseth
  8. remisier
  9. remisiers
  10. remising
  11. remiss

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