pourparler
Americannoun
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pourparlers
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pourparler
Literally, “for talking”
Example Sentences
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The official drummer could explain by the high and low alternations of his taps that a deed of violence just done was not a crime but a pourparler for the forming of a league.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
He goes to have a pourparler with the Pope.
From The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Further, Mr. Stent accompanied Cecil Rhodes to the Mattopo hills, where the late Colossus went unarmed to hold with the Matabele chiefs the pourparler which brought about the peace of Southern Rhodesia.
From Native Life in South Africa by Sol (Solomon Tshekisho) Plaatje
The old woman in Normandy had written, oh, yes; but then there must have been a great pourparler, and even Félicité had grown angry.
From The Halo by B. Martin Justice
The last-named group on the other hand, produced much pourparler, for Jay maintained that these Negroes were "clearly comprehended by the terms of the treaty."
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various
There were pourparlers and offers, so that last week Gold Dust's President George K. Morrow need merely put through a telephone call to the Rockefeller counsel.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was accompanied last week by important pourparlers for Franco-Russian cooperation, economic as well as military.
From Time Magazine Archive
For myself I never doubted that the result of our pourparlers would be satisfactory, and so it is.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Agreed!” said Arthur; “that is only fair. And now that the pourparlers are over, may I ask what it is we are to do?”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
These have all shown a trembling haste to oblige; and after some pourparlers, there is now a faint possibility of a modus vivendi being arranged during the next few weeks.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
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