rebrousser, v.a., to turn up (the hair). — chemin; to go back, to turn back, to retrace one’s steps.
rebroussoir, n.m., napping-tool.
rebroyer, v.a., to grind again.
rebrûler, v.a., to burn again.
rebrunir, v.a., to burnish again.
rebuffade, n.f., rebuff, repulse, rebuke.
rébus (-bus), n.m., rebus; pun, conundrum.
rebut, n.m., repulse, rebuff, rejection, refusal; refuse; trash; waste, rubbish, trumpery; riff-raff, scum. Marchandises de —; waste goods. Papier de —; waste paper. Mettre au —; to throw aside. Être au —; to be thrown aside. Mettre une lettre au —; to send a letter to the dead-letter office. De —; waste, left off, cast off. Bureau des —; dead-letter office.
rebutant, -e, adj., repulsive, forbidding, loathsome. Travail —; tedious work. Air —; forbidding look. Homme —; repulsive man.
rebuter, v.a., to repulse, to rebuff, to thrust away, to cast aside; to reject, to refuse; to disgust, to shock. — des excuses; to refuse an apology. Il a rebuté ces marchandises; he rejected those goods.