29 May 2016
revanche
[ruh-vanch, -vahnsh]
noun
1. the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc.
Origin of revanche
1855-1860; < French: revenge
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Examples from the Web for revanche
Historical Examples
It is not ” revanche ” we want, but the return of our territory.
Ten Years Near the German Frontier
Maurice Francis Egan
You must give me my chance of a revanche to-morrow, Mr Tempest!
The Sorrows of Satan
Marie Corelli
With the young Welshman a joke might be carried to extremes, and he would only seek his revanche by a lark of like kind.
The Flag of Distress
Mayne Reid
On every occasion that the revanche cry has been resuscitated, the direct cause is to be sought in Germany.
What Germany Thinks
Thomas F. A. Smith
It brooded upon the revanche, the return match with Prussia.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
Herbert George Wells
Hence Germany’s bristling attitude to France, and the revival in France of the revanche idea, which had died down.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
Herbert George Wells
When the king lost he was most exacting for his ‘ revanche,’ or revenge, as it is termed at play.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims
Andrew Steinmetz
The worst of it is, when one bets with these low people there is no chance of getting a revanche at some other time.
The White Chief
Mayne Reid
Any hope of revanche is abandoned in the reflection of the super-retaliations he himself conceives.
The Merry-Go-Round
Carl Van Vechten
Word Origin and History for revanche Expand
n.
“revenge,” 1858, from French revanche (see revanchist ).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Anagram
ranch eve
he cavern
Today’s quote
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
On this day
29 May 1874 – birth of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (otherwise known as G.K. Chesterton), English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer and Christian apologist. Died 14 June 1936.
29 May 1917 – birthday of John F. Kennedy. 35th president of the United States. Assassinated 22 November 1963.
29 May 1953 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, become the first men to reach the summit of Mt Everest.