remise

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Jon Levy—who I would be remise if I didn’t mention once worked as an informercial “Before and After” model—hosted his first dinner party almost four years ago.

From Forbes • Jun. 11, 2013

Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust.

From Time Magazine Archive

Note verbale remise par l'Ambassadeur d'Allemagne au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères le 12/25 Juillet 1914.

From Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

The side aisles are stalls for horses and cattle, and the centre is a remise for carriages and the public diligences which run to this inn!

From A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot by Fellowes, W.D.

You shall go in a remise de ver, or glass-coach, as round as a pumpkin, but you shall not go in glass slippers, like Cinderella, because they are not pleasant to walk in.

From Valerie by Marryat, Frederick