Definition of Repêchage

1. Noun. A race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race.

Generic synonyms: Race

Definition of Repêchage

1. Noun. (sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round. ¹

2. Noun. (alternative spelling of repechage) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repêchage

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repêchage

repeat unit
repeatabilities
repeatability
repeatable
repeatably
repeated
repeatedly
repeater
repeaters
repeateth
repeating
repeating decimal
repeating firearm
repeating unit
repeats
repechage
repechages
repecharge
repedation
repeddle
repeddled
repeddling
repeg
repegged
repegging
repegs
repel
repellant
repellant guiding molecule
repellantly

Literary usage of Repêchage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"'A specific type face,... a modern one for the third millennium (and not at all a philological repechage), but in some way related to the tradition of the ..."

2. Rural Education in France by Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton, John Charles Medd (1902)
"As for the evils of the system of repechage, it is evidently a matter of stiffening the hands of those who preside over the examinations. ..."

3. Special Reports on Educational Subjects by Great Britain Board of Education (1902)
"I was particularly interested in what I saw, as I came in for the repechage, but did not think the judges were unduly lenient. ..."

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