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‖ rapprochement|raprɔʃmɑ̃|
[F., f. rapprocher (f. re- + approcher approach) + -ment.]
A coming or bringing together, an establishment of harmonious relations.
1809Edin. Rev. XIV. 228 One of the opinions..deserves to be mentioned, as exhibiting a curious rapprochement. 1888Times (weekly ed.) 6 July 8/3 A rapprochement between the Russian and Austrian governments. 1905Daily Chron. 19 Jan. 4/3 The retiring Premier is fully justified in claiming as a distinctive mark of his Government that it aimed at a ‘rapprochement between peoples’. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 207 The same rapprochement between highbrow and lowbrow..can be seen in literature. 1940[see artify v.]. 1955Times 17 May 9/5 They should not assume that a Soviet-Yugoslav rapprochement was outside the framework of current conciliatory developments. 1958L. Durrell Mountolive xii. 228 With some half-formulated idea of offering the silent figure another chance to open up a discussion with him or seek a rapprochement, he rode his horse into the courtyard. 1974J. White tr. Poulantzas's Fascism & Dictatorship iv. iii. 211 It was only with the split in the Socialist Party, in October 1922, that rapprochement with the Maximalists was attempted. 1979Dædalus Winter 78 The Community's structures were designed..to accommodate the Franco-German rapprochement. |