Ripost
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ripost is a noun meaning (fencing) A thrust given in return after parrying a lunge.
Meaning
(fencing) A thrust given in return after parrying a lunge.
More Meanings
- A quick and usually witty response to a taunt.
- An answer or reply, rapidly uttered, in response to a question or problem.
Example Sentences
The French government was always apprehensive to the German Government’s ripost to an air offensive.
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.
Word Forms
- riposts
- riposte
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include counterriposte, counterparry, tac-au-tac, counter-parry, renewal, passade.
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