noun (formal)
1 a quick and clever reply, especially to criticism:
a witty riposte
2 a course of action that takes place in response to sth that has happened:
The US delivered an early riposte to the air attack.
riposte verb [Vspeech]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for riposte is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does riposte appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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