ententen.
/ɑːnˈtɑːnt/, /ɒnˈtɒnt/, /ɒ̃ˈtɒ̃t/, U.S. /ɑnˈtɑnt/ a. An understanding; most frequently used as a shortening of entente cordiale n.
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entente cordiale1844
entente1854
triple entente1886
1854 Ld. Bloomfield Let. 9 Dec. in G. Bloomfield Remin. (1883) II. 47 Just at the moment that the King [of Prussia] was proclaiming the happy entente with Austria.
1878 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine II. xxxv. 325 Esmé held out her hand, which he took; and thus the friendly entente was sealed!
1907 Times 20 Apr. 8/2 But was there not an entente which must be the great ideal of every Briton—the entente cordiale, the entente commerciale between Great and Greater Britain?
1908 Daily Chron. 14 Aug. 1/5 Why, asked Mr. Lloyd George, cannot we have an agreement with Germany, seeing that Great Britain has already concluded ententes with France, Russia, and the United States?
b. A group of states or powers connected by an entente cordiale. Little Entente: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1d.
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1907 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/2 The reforms introduced in the Macedonian vilayets by the entente Powers.]
1920 Glasgow Herald 5 Aug. 7 The young Austrian republic, whose existence would be endangered unless the Entente intervened.
Derivatives
enˈtentist n. one who favours an entente.
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ententist1915
ententophil1920
1915 Times 30 Aug. 5/7 Oh! you stupid Quadruple Ententists!
1924 Glasgow Herald 24 Jan. 7 Carlotti, the Italian Ambassador at Petersburg and an Ententist.
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