Dictionary entry

Repair (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Re‐pair″, n. [OF. repaire retreat, asylum, abode. See Repair to go.] 1. The act of repairing or resorting to a place. Chaucer.

The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses. Clarendon.

2. Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.

There the fierce winds his tender force assail

And beat him downward to his first repair. Dryden.