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- French · derived fromrepêchage
- English todayrepechage
From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- (“again”) + pêcher (“to fish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
repechage
Today it means: A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round. Full definition →
French repêchage