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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of repartee.

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Examples

  • Sergo, search me, the incapable reparteed with a selfevitant subtlety so obviously spurious and, raising his hair, after the grace, with the christmas under his clutcharm, for Portsymasser and Purtsymessus and Pertsymiss and Partsymasters, like a prance of findingos, with a shillto shallto slipny stripny, in he skittled.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Thus they jested and reparteed and played one upon another all the while they sat at table.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • We saw, after that, a diminutive humpbacked gallant, pretty near us, taking leave of a she-relation of his, thus: Fare thee well, friend hole; she reparteed, Save thee, friend peg.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • We saw, after that, a diminutive humpbacked gallant, pretty near us, taking leave of a she-relation of his, thus: Fare thee well, friend hole; she reparteed, Save thee, friend peg.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • We saw, after that, a diminutive humpbacked gallant, pretty near us, taking leave of a she-relation of his, thus: Fare thee well, friend hole; she reparteed, Save thee, friend peg.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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