en rapport
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of en rapport
From French
Example Sentences
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Secondly, German coke makers and French iron miners are now sufficiently en rapport to make probable shortly a union of the two complementary industries and consequently lower prices for Franco-German steel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Though Mr. Macdonald's inability to suppress Laborite rowdyism last week somewhat damped his prestige, he appears to remain en rapport with all but the most radical Laborites.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She had sent that cry into the night, and I, being en rapport with her, had heard it—had witnessed the tragedy which called it forth.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson
I could scarcely credit my senses, scarcely believe that I was not labouring under some horrid hallucination, some confusion of the brain produced by my having been en rapport with the maniac!
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
Later on, to those with whom he felt specially en rapport, Longfellow would read aloud some poems, new or old, his own, or those of other men.
From A Day With Longfellow by Anonymous
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