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‖ remplaçant|rɑ̃plasɑ̃|
Also fem. -e.
[Fr.]
One who replaces another; a substitute.
1850Lady Eddisbury Let. 23 Mar. in N. Mitford Ladies of Alderley (1938) 280 At 5 Macaulay sent word he was too ill to come, Ed. could get no remplaçant & so at 1/4 to 8, our dinner having dwindled, we sent for Mama. 1880E. W. Hamilton Diary 23 May (1972) I. 14 The defence of the Government is..that as he [sc. Sir B. Frere] is more conversant than any ‘remplaçant’ could be with the important question of confederation, he had better be left to carry that through. 1915W. J. Locke Jaffery xiii. 177 ‘We've settled nothing about a remplaçante for Mrs. Considine.’.. ‘No one can replace Mrs. Considine.’ |