noun
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
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| —n | |
| an action intended to mislead, deceive, or trick; stratagem | |
| [C15: from Old French: trick, esp to evade capture, from ruser to retreat, from Latin recūsāre to refuse] | |
| Ruse (ˈruːseɪ) | |
| —n | |
| a city in NE Bulgaria, on the River Danube: the chief river port and one of the largest industrial centres in Bulgaria. Pop: 172 000 (2005 est) | |
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Word Origin & History
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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