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ri-POST
noun, verb
a verbal retort; a returning thrust in fencing; a response
1888Bonnie Prince Charlie I tell you I have work to hold my own with him; he knows every trick and turn as well as I do, and is quicker with his lunge and riposte. 1938The Unvanquished...and this no poste and riposte of sweat-reeking cavalry which all war-telling is full of…1988Ill Met in LankhmarThe Mouser made a very small parry in carte so that the thrust of the bravo from the east went past his left side by only a hair's breadth. He instantly riposted. His adversary, desperately springing back, parried in turn in carte.1998Field of 13'Sandy Nutbridge,' the mediator riposted, 'is paying to her what she advanced to free him…'Labels: Dick Francis, Fritz Leiber, G. A. Henty, William Faulkner
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