Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)

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réponse, s'il vous plaît, or R.S.V.P. (Fr.), reply, if you please, an answer will oblige.

requiescat in pace! or R.I.P. (L.), may he [or she] rest in peace!

res angusta domi (L.), narrow circumstances at home, poverty.

res gestæ (L.), exploits.

respice finem (L.), look to the end.

résumé (Fr.), an abstract or summary.

resurgam (L.), I shall rise again.

revenons à nos moutons (Fr.), let us return to our sheep: let us return to our subject.

réverbère (Fr.), a reflector, street-lamp.

rêveur, fem. rêveuse (Fr.), a day-dreamer.