pourparler

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Example sentences from the Web for pourparler

• It was only after these inquiries that, to use a diplomatic phrase, pourparler for negotiations began.

  A Fantasy of Far Japan|Baron Kencho Suyematsu

• To humour a madman—that is what one always advised, therefore Stolphe would make the pourparler, as the French say.

  The Money Master, Complete|Gilbert Parker

• Pourparler, a diplomatic conference towards the framing of a treaty.

  The Nuttall Encyclopaedia|Edited by Rev. James Wood