pourparler
Americannoun
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pourparlers
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pourparler
Literally, “for talking”
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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
It was only after these inquiries that, to use a diplomatic phrase, pourparler for negotiations began.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
Gwen seemed tolerant of Voltaire, as a pourparler.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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
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
For myself I never doubted that the result of our pourparlers would be satisfactory, and so it is.
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
“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
The pourparlers between her and Lord Buckhurst, relative to the proposed marriage of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou, took place under the trees in the Tuileries garden.
From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball
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