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Riposte   Listen
noun
Riposte, Ripost  n.  
1.
In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.
2.
A quick and sharp refort; a repartee.





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"Riposte" Quotes from Famous Books



... the riposte. The "Jack-leen" was innocent blundering, she knew that. He had heard Rodrigo address her so, and he used it in all respect. But there was her own question turned on herself. By "her interest" he of course meant the interest ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... escaped the boy in his earlier dreamings of the dream—but the time came when he could name every pass, parry, invitation, and riposte. ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren


Words linked to "Riposte" :   come back, mouth, response, repay, sassing, respond, rejoinder, lunge, comeback, lip, sass, retort, replication, countermove, counterattack, hurtle, reply, counter, thrust, return


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