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ruse

  [rooz]
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–noun
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME (n. use of obs. rusen to detour) < MF, deriv. of ruser to retreat. See rush 1

Synonyms:
See trick.

Ru⋅se

  [roo-sey]
–noun
a city in N Bulgaria, on the Danube. 160,351.
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ruse   (rōōs, rōōz)   
n.  A crafty stratagem; a subterfuge. See Synonyms at wile.

[Middle English, detour, dodging, from Old French, from ruser, to drive back; see rush1.]
Ru·se   (rŏŏ'sā)   
A city of northeast Bulgaria on the Danube River south of Bucharest, Romania. Founded as a Roman fortress, it is today a major port and industrial center. Population: 159,000.
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Ruse

Ruse\, n. [F., fr. OF. re["u]ser, rehuser, to turn aside, to shuffle, retreat, fr. L. recusare to refuse; pref. re- again + causa cause. See Cause, and cf. Recusant.] An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.

Ruse de guerre[F.], a stratagem of war.
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Language Translation for : ruse
Spanish: ardid, treta,
German: die List,
Japanese: 策略
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ruse 
1410, "dodging movements of a hunted animal," from O.Fr. ruse (14c.), noun use of ruser "to dodge, repel, retreat," from L. recusare "deny, reject, oppose," from re- intensive prefix, + causari "plead as a reason, object, allege," from causa "reason, cause." Or the O.Fr. word may be from L. rursus "backwards." "A French word neither elegant nor necessary." [Johnson] But the verb ruse was used in M.E.
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Ruse

city of northern Bulgaria, on the Danube River near the mouth of the Rusenski Lom. Bulgaria's principal river port and a transportation hub for road and rail, Ruse has regular shipping services on the Danube and an airport. Upstream is the Friendship Bridge, built in 1954, carrying road and rail traffic across the river to Giurgiu, in Romania. Ruse is an industrial town, with an oil refinery, railway car and locomotive works, textile mills, and plants for food processing and the production of agricultural machinery, leather goods, ceramics, and other consumer goods. The harbour is cut in the Danube alluvial plain at the foot of low bluffs.

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