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Definition of Pourparlers
1. pourparler [n] - See also: pourparler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pourparlers
Literary usage of Pourparlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of My Time: Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier by Etienne-Denis Pasquier, Edme Armand Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1894)
"THE months of January and February, 1813, were spent in pourparlers and negotiations
between Paris and Berlin, and Paris and Vienna, the object of them ..."
2. A Cycle of Cathay: Or, China, South and North. With Personal Reminiscences by William Alexander Parsons Martin (1896)
"... CHAPTER XI TIENTSIN AND THE TREATIES Tartar plenipotentiaries— pourparlers
and signature— Episodes, tragic and comic—The whole a mirage "Two truths are ..."
3. The Life of Charles Lever by William John Fitzpatrick (1879)
"CHAPTER X. "Jack Hinton"—pourparlers from the Government —Return to Ireland— What
led to his acceptance of an editorial chair—Proposal from Mr. Bentley—A ..."
4. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"... which takes place to enable the two armies to buey their dead, their chiefs
to hold conferences or pourparlers, and the like. ..."
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