retraite
/rəˈtrɛt/noun
1The state of being in seclusion, devoting oneself to prayer, study, or meditation.
2 Military. Chiefly in France or in French contexts: a piece of music played to mark the end of a celebration, or to signal the end of the day.
Origin
Early 19th century (in an earlier sense). From French retraite.
- self-satisfaction
- self-satisfied
- self-sealing
- self-seed
- self-seeder
- self-seeker
- self-seeking
- self-select
- self-selecting
- self-selection
- self-service
- self-serving
- self-shifter
- self-similar
- self-similarity
- self-slaughter
- self-soothe
- self-sow
- self-standing
- self-starter
- self-starting
- self-sterile
- self-sterility
- self-stick
- self-stimulation