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Refresher

noun

A fee (in addition to that marked on the brief) paid to counsel in a case that lasts more than one day.

A drink that refreshes.

A course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments. Synonym: refresher course.

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Etymology of 'Refresher'

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"Refresher" Quotes from Famous Books

... integrate its truth, or the final consequences that might involve some deep arriere pensee, which, coming last in the succession, might oftentimes be calculated to lie deepest on the mind. To be lawfully and usefully brilliant after this rapid fashion, a man must come forward as a refresher of old truths, where his suppressions are supplied by the reader's memory; not as an expounder of new truths, where oftentimes a dislocated fraction of the true is more ...

— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey

... weeks I went out at a certain hour to take care of Gilmour's stand while he went and got a "refresher" in the shape of some indigestible pudding made of millet-flour with beans for plums. He generally left me with a patient or two requiring some lotion in the eye or some wound to dress. Then I, being a new-comer and a typical "foreign devil" (being red ...

— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour

... widen the basis of the Bath. This promise was never fulfilled; but not for any want of clamorous persecution on my part addressed to my brother's wearied ear and somewhat callous sense of honor. Every fortnight, or so, I took care that he should receive a "refresher," as lawyers call it,—a new and revised brief,—memorializing my pretensions. These it was my brother's policy to parry, by alleged instances of recent misconduct on my part. But all such offences, I insisted, were thoroughly washed away by subsequent services ...

— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey

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