Definition of rencontre in English:
rencontre
noun rɛnˈkɒntəräNˈkôNtr(ə)
archaic variant spelling of rencounter
Example sentencesExamples
- Hey all, hope you're enjoying this… Jamie and Kara have their first rencontre in this chap, so read on!
- The last rencontre between Prince and Rusalka, she poised on the steps, he ultimately doing a slow death-cascade down the waterfall below her, was (almost visibly) - melting.
- Who else would have put so much energy and resources into bringing 20 Indian writers to their country for a series of ‘rencontres’ with the public of this highly literate land?
- ‘I will explain,’ he said, ‘and that you may comprehend all clearly, we will first retrace the course of your meditations, from the moment in which I spoke to you until that of the rencontre with the fruiterer in question.’
Origin
Early 17th century: French.