2. Verb. (third-person singular of repartee) ¹
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Definition of Repartees
1. repartee [n] - See also: repartee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repartees
Literary usage of Repartees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The poetical works of Samuel Butler: A Revised Edition with Memoir and Notes by Samuel Butler (1893)
"repartees BETWEEN CAT AND PUSS. ... And sporting on delightful faggot-piles; Of
bolting out of bushes in the dark, repartees'] This poem is a satirical ..."
2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... repartees, Keen Jests, &c„from the Foreign Tales, Witty aud Merry Sav- of par Lt.
Sotheby, ... repartees ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Gold Is tried by the touchstone, and men b/ fold.*-.- Touchstone. A clown whose
mouth U filled with quips and cranks and witty repartees. ..."
4. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... with his fierce, serpent-tongued repartees, his subtle blasphemies, his cynical
levity playing over a passion of horror at the wickedness and cowardice ..."
5. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... yet were his repartees for the most part very quick and smart, and which
savour'd much of ingenuity, of which I shall give you two instances. ..."
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