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recant(dictionary)

Vincennes (iou) and recant (oh)


Vincennes (iou)



Vincennes noun & adjective. M18.
[See below.]
A. noun. A kind of fine porcelain produced at a chateau in the town of Vincennes (now a suburb of Paris) in the eighteenth cent., before the workshop was transferred to Sevres. M18.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Designating (an item made from) this porcelain. L19.

recant (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: recantare, from cantare 'to sing']
formal to say publicly that you no longer have a political or religious belief that you had before
-- recantation /7ri:kAn5teIFEn/ n [U and C]