English
Etymology
from French riposte taken from Italian riposta a derivative of the verbrispondere to respond.
Noun
ripost (also riposte; plural: riposts)
- (in fencing) A thrust given in return after parrying a lunge.
- A quick and usually witty response to a taunt
- An answer or reply, rapidly uttered, in response to a question or problem.
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#* The French government was always apprehensive to the German Government�s ripost to an air offensive. Brasseys Annual: The Armed Forces Year-book edited. Thomas Allnut Brassey Praeger Publishers p. 306.
#* 2005 Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant�s short story Le Mari sentimental, in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife�s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life. Title:Through The Reading Glass ISBN:0791464210 Publisher:SUNY Press. Author Suellen Diaconoff. Publication Date: Apr 7, 2005 Page:110
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Translations
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Italian: riposta
Spanish: respuesta
Interlingua: riposta
French: ripost
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