Definition of "retour" [retour]

• A returning. (noun)
• In Scots law, an extract from chancery of the service of an heir to his ancestor. (noun)
• To revert (to a person).
• To return (to a place).
• To return (a person) as heir.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Juste retour des choses ici-bas. there being absolutely no such _retour_ for Gustave -- one feels rather inclined, as his countrymen would say, to "conspue" Paul. ["
• ""Now a retour is a writ returned from the Court of Attorney, testifying the service of every succeeding heir; and is therefore an unexceptionable evidence of paying his predecessor's debts, and of performing his obligations and deeds."
• "Au retour de Sicile, les enfants ont découvert quelques clandestins dans la voiture!"