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单词 en retraite
释义

en retraiteadv.

Etymology: < French.
(a) Retired from service or employment; in retirement, on half pay; (b) in seclusion.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adverb]
in privity?c1225
in private1469
on private1582
monkishly1595
retiredly1599
recluse1612
reclusely1748
in seclusion1785
secludedly1837
en retraite1840
reclusively1845
upon the snug1861
to lie up1881
1840 L. S. Costello Summer amongst Bocages & Vines I. v. 93 At certain periods of the year the sudden announcement from your servant maids that they are en retraite for a week.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis i Specimens of the costume of a military man en retraite.
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 57 I receive as a reward for my services..a post, with which I am well satisfied. I live in it for years. I use all my energies in it, and for me there is no future except en retraite.
1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum x. 90 Julius is strictly en retraite, I should say.
1958 L. Durrell Mountolive v. 102 Pombal is doing all this legitimately. He is on local leave. I am en retraite.
2007 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Review section) 22 Conan Doyle was staying at the Ashdown Forest Hotel in Sussex. Officially, he was en retraite with his mother.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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