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I hope the redout will help the rangers this series.

—Lone Star Ball

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noun A sudden reddening of the visual field accompanied by severe headache and caused by engorgement of the blood vessels of the head when a person is subjected to a negative force of gravity, as in stunt flying.

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I hope the redout will help the rangers this series. — Lone Star Ball
Page 590: changed "redout" to "redoubt" (last redoubt held) — American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
A sa mort, arrivée en 1461, il laissa en manuscrit deux ouvrages dont on trouve des copies dans quelques bibliothčques, l'un intitulé, De conceptione beatć Marić virginis, adversus mahometanos et infideles, libri duo; l'autre, Adversus Alcoranum, libri quinque Je me suis peu étendu sur la description du pays depuis Vienne jusqu'ici, parce qu'il est connu; quant aux autres que j'ai parcourus dans mon voyage, si j'en publie la relation j'avertis ceux qui la liront que je l'ai entreprise, non par ostentation et vanité, mais pour instruire et guider les personnes qu'un męme desir conduiroit dans ces contrées, et pour obéir ŕ mon trčs-redouté seigneur monseigneur le duc, qui me l'a ordonné. — The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
The small public garden, named for an old redout on the lake shore at the mouth of Bayou St. John was filled with a yellow sunset as Chester and Aline moved after the aunts and the De l'Isles from the train into — The Flower of the Chapdelaines
à mon très-redouté seigneur monseigneur le duc, qui me l'a ordonné. — The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III

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from Old French reduit, from L, reductus, brought back. past participle of reducere, bring back: see reduce. Cf. redout, n.

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