arrêt

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arrêt

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Unadapted borrowing from French arrêt.

noun arrêts · arret

historical A formal sentence of the King or Parliament of France; hence, a decree, a ruling. His father now shewed him an arret, which, on the fourth of June, 1776, he had obtained from the parliament of Rouen against his marriage.

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@misc{arre_t_2026,
  title = {arrêt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/arr%C3%AAt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}