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é󲹳ܴڴé

[ French rey-shoh-fey ]

noun

plural é󲹳ܴڴés
  1. a warmed-up dish of food.
  2. anything old or stale brought into service again.


é󲹳ܴڴé

/ ʃǴڱ /

noun

  1. warmed-up leftover food
  2. old, stale, or reworked material
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of é󲹳ܴڴé1

First recorded in 1795–1805; from French, past participle of é󲹳ܴڴڱ, equivalent to r(e)- re- + é󲹳ܴڴڱ “to warm”; chafe
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of é󲹳ܴڴé1

C19: from French ré󲹳ܴڴڱ to reheat, from re- + chauffer to warm; see chafe
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Example Sentences

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She quotes one California cook, who wrote in 1904, “The secret of a successful rechauffé is its complete disguise … it should be combined with other ingredients, seasoned, and served so that its identity is completely lost.”

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And another, “L’histoire vit de documents, mais les documents sont pareils aux lettres écrites avec les encres chimiques; ils veulent, pour livrer leur secret, qu’on les réchauffe, et les éclaire par transparence, à la flamme de la vie.”

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Every time he tries to generalize his slanders against the revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, he produces merely a é󲹳ܴڴé of the prejudices of Jaurèsism and Bernsteinism.

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So far from this being the case, I had, as will be seen in various passages of the first volume, considerable respect for the feeling with which he worked; but I was compelled to do harsh justice upon him now, because Mr. Leslie, in his unadvised and unfortunate é󲹳ܴڴé of the fallacious art-maxims of the last century, has suffered his personal regard for Constable so far to prevail over his judgment as to bring him forward as a great artist, comparable in some kind with Turner.

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If you think there is worth in it, save it for a possible use at a later date in some other MS., though, personally, I do not believe in any sort of é󲹳ܴڴé of old matter, simply because as time goes on we change in our style of writing as we do in our tastes and preferences in neckties.

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