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contretemps Fencing a feint made with the purpose of producing a counterthrust from one's opponent How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This little domestic contretemps -is then, I presume, disagreeable to you I cannot pretend to recount all that he told me, but I gleaned from what he said that he was the genius who presided over the contretemps of mankind, and whose business it was to bring about the odd accidents which are continually astonishing the skeptic. The son, who took every little contretemps as if it were a tragedy, was listening also. |
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