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touche

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tou⋅ché

[too-shey]
–interjection
1. Fencing. (an expression used to indicate a hit or touch.)
2. (an expression used for acknowledging a telling remark or rejoinder.)

Origin:
1920–25; < F: lit., touched
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tou·ché   (tōō-shā')   
interj.  Used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or a successful criticism or an effective point in argument.

[French, from past participle of toucher, to hit or wound in fencing, from Old French touchier, to touch; see touch.]
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Word Origin & History

touché 
1904, "exclamation acknowledging a hit in fencing," from Fr. touché, pp. of toucher, from O.Fr. touchier "to hit" (see touch).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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