remise

present singular third person remises · participle present remising · participle past remised · past remised

1. formaltransitiveTo send or give back.
2. transitivelawTo surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.

plural remises

1. obsoletelawA return or surrender of a claim, property etc.First known use 15th–19th c.

plural remises

1. historicalA house for covered carriages; a chaise house.First known use 17th c.

   long before we had got to the door of the remise, Fancy had finished the whole head

   1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]

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   [T]his technique implied the existence of garages specializing in "stage-automobile" operations, but I never could discover the remises he used […].

   1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

2. obsoleteA hired livery carriage of a kind superior to an ordinary fiacre; so called because kept in a remise.First known use 17th–19th c.

   I got into my remise the hour I proposed: La Fleur got up behind, and I bid the coachman make the best of his way to Versailles.

   1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC

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   [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. fencingA renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.First known use 19th c.
4. entertainmentThe repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.