NOUN
- a friendly understanding between political powers
- an informal alliance between countries
How To Use entente cordiale In A Sentence
- Instead of an entente cordiale of mutual admiration, he has faced awkward questions about Afghanistan troop levels, Turkey-phobia, and the French nuclear arsenal.
- This doorstop of a book chronicles how - through invasions, revolutions and coups - the arts have flourished in the city and details its entente cordiale between art and politics from the Gothic to de Gaulle.
- Britain and France, whose alliance dated to the entente cordiale of 1904 and two world wars, drew opposite lessons from this humiliation.
- Unlike the original entente cordiale, which was the product of mutual concern about a hostile power before the first world war, the latest deal is being presented as the product of hard-headed pragmatism, designed to maximise each nation's military capabilities while saving money. Liam Fox: Anglo-French defence treaty will not compromise UK sovereignty
- Unlike the original entente cordiale, which was the product of mutual concern about a hostile power before the first world war, the latest treaty is the product of hard-headed pragmatism, designed to maximise each nation's military capabilites while saving money. Britain and France to seal defence pact