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repechage Definition


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repechage
noun
    1. especially fencing & rowing.
      A supplementary heat in a competition that allows runners-up from earlier eliminating heats a second chance to go on to the final.
Etymology: 19c: from French repêchage a fishing out again, from pêcher to fish.



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