relais ( s silent)

[Fr.] Fort.: A narrow walk, of four or five feet in width, left without the rampart to receive the earth which may be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. *re-la-měnt', v . t . [Pref. re-, and Eng. lament , v. (q. v.)] To lament over again. "They find enough, ah! without mine, To relament their own." Cyprian Academy (1647), ii. 42.