Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
retrait .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Retreat.
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Examples
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The translators French text had le seigle, le retraict de la paille.
Wat Tyler’s Rebellion. How the Commons of England Rebelled against the Noblemen 1909
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The translator's French text had 'le seigle, le retraict de la paille.' and drink water: they dwell in fair houses, and we have the pain and travail, rain and wind in the fields; and by that that cometh of our labours they keep and maintain their estates: we be called their bondmen, and without we do readily them service, we be beaten; and we have no sovereign to whom we may complain, nor that will hear us nor do us right.
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