What is "rette"

Usage examples of "rette".

I thought my departure would go unnoticed but when I got my summons and prepared to leave I found, tucked in the webbing Of my pack, an envelope filled with the precious coupons with which we drew our ration of cigarettes in those days.

And so these people gathered and smoked cigarettes and talked and Enoch Robinson, the boy from the farm near Winesburg, was there.