Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Retiracy \Re*tir"a*cy\, n.
   Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way.
   [U.S.] --Bartlett.

         What one of our great men used to call dignified
         retiracy.                                --C. A.
                                                  Bristed.