retrait

From Middle French retrait.

retrait (plural retraits)

1. (obsolete) A picture or other visual representation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

     She is the mighty Queene of Faerie, / Whose faire retrait I in my shield do beare […]

retrait (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) retired

Variant forms.

retrait (plural retraits)

1. Obsolete form of retreat.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:

     Cyrus was his second Brother: who gave the occasion of that memorable work, and almost miraculous retrait of Xenophon.

• attirer, rattier, tartier

From the verb retraire, corresponding to Latin retractus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.tʁɛ/

retrait m (plural retraits)

1. retreat
2. withdrawal
3. (baseball) out
4. (cricket) dismissal
5. (sex) coitus interruptus

• “retrait” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• attérir, atterri, attirer, retirât, terrait, titrera, traiter, traitre, traître