remise
/rɪˈmiːz
/Fencing
verb [no object]
Make a second thrust after the first has failed.When you remise against an immediate riposte, it will likely generate a double touch, causing you to get hit (which is bad); so this is given a big thumb's down.
noun
A second thrust made after the first has failed.You never allow a remise to get past your guard like that....
- The next touch was Haslette's, won after a stunning exchange of parries, counterparries, cutovers, counterattacks, remises, ripostes - almost every close-range trick anyone there knew.
Origin
French, past participle of remettre 'put back'.