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pourparler
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Definition:a meeting or consultation leading up to a treaty
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You don't walk into a man's house and start crushing him beneath the iron heel without as much as saying hullo. Obviously there would have to be a few preliminary pourparlers just to get things going,
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.86 (1971)
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It is a vivid memory with me how closely we in Ireland hung upon the varying fortunes and vicissitudes of the Boulogne pourparlers, and how earnest was the hope in every honest Irish heart that a way out might be found which would not involve our incomparable leader [Parnell] in further humiliations.Captain D.D. Sheehan. Ireland Since Parnell (1921)
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