arrêt
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]arrêt (plural arrêts)
- (now historical) A formal sentence of the King or Parliament of France; hence, a decree, a ruling.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview, published 2002, page 123:
- His father now shewed him an arret, which, on the fourth of June, 1776, he had obtained from the parliament of Rouen against his marriage.
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 39:
- “Prior Aymer,” said the Templar, “you are a man of gallantry, learned in the study of beauty, and as expert as a troubadour in all matters concerning the arrets of love; […]”
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[edit]French
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Arret.jpg/220px-Arret.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From arrêter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]arrêt m (plural arrêts)
- stopping, checking, arrest (in development, growth, machinery etc.)
- stop (place)
- (law) judgment, ruling
- safety catch, stop button
- (field hockey or ice hockey) stop, save
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “arrêt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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