pourparler
Americannoun
PLURAL
pourparlersnoun
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Origin of pourparler
Literally, “for talking”
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Pourparler, pōōr-p�r′lā, n. a conference to arrange for some important transaction, as the formation of a treaty.
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Whatever may be the nature of the pourparler, it must be based on the conviction that neither legal contention nor diplomatic dispute will ever settle the vexed question.
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It was only after these inquiries that, to use a diplomatic phrase, pourparler for negotiations began.
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Gwen seemed tolerant of Voltaire, as a pourparler.
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He goes to have a pourparler with the Pope.
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