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Rappel

verb
1.
Lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside.  Synonyms: abseil, rope down.  "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing"
noun
1.
(mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body.  Synonym: abseil.





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"Rappel" Quotes from Famous Books



... on all sides! le Figaro and le Rappel; it is complete! Those people to whom I lent money or for whom I did favors call me an idiot. I have never had less nerves. My stoicism (or pride) surprises myself even, and when I look for the causes, I ask myself, dear master, if you ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert


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