Lexicographical Neighbors of Relaches
Literary usage of Relaches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Warriors who Have Commanded Fleets and Armies Before the Enemy by Edward Cust (1869)
"In the same frank spirit he answers a prohibition on the subject of relaches. "
Le lieu des relaches depend des vents etdes accidents qui arrive i'i la mer. ..."
2. General Average by John H. Gourlie (1879)
"I. Of relaches, whieh have not for their object the repair of damages. I1.
Of R.chn.hes made to repair the common averages. 111. ..."
3. Portraits of the Eighteenth Century: Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1905)
"... which time has aggravated (renforcee), he says, and which now gives him
occasional respites (relaches) only to, etc., etc. All this is unpleasant; ..."