Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who retreats or falls back.
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Examples
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Anne: Oh, I know that kind of retreater: ostensibly getting away from everything to write, but outraged to learn that there isn’t round-the-clock room service and a shopping mall with a movie theatre next door to the retreat.
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Anne: Oh, I know that kind of retreater: ostensibly getting away from everything to write, but outraged to learn that there isn’t round-the-clock room service and a shopping mall with a movie theatre next door to the retreat.
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Usually, the work exchange results in a discount for the retreater, but this is the room for an entire three-week session.
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This is why, in case any of you have been wondering, one of the first questions an experienced retreater will ask about a residency is, “Do they feed you?”
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This is why, in case any of you have been wondering, one of the first questions an experienced retreater will ask about a residency is, “Do they feed you?”
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Even sexy groans while busting a nut in front of another silent retreater in the whirlpool is forbidden.
"Once you went to a spa when you felt tense. Now you feel tense going to a spa." Ann Althouse 2009
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Usually, the work exchange results in a discount for the retreater, but this is the room for an entire three-week session.
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"Sir," the great retreater blurted out, "my views are that our people are tired of war, feel themselves whipped and will not fight."
The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 1905
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"Marse Robert," for Seven Pines had not been fought, and "Joe Johnston," the "great retreater," was still falling back somewhere about the Peninsula.
How a one-legged rebel lives : reminiscences of the Civil War, 1898
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"He shall miss it, though!" said Sir Norman, detecting, at the same instant, a dark figure getting through the broken doorway; and striking spurs into his horse, he was instantaneously beside it, out of the saddle, and had grasped the retreater by the shoulder.
The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1860
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