Both Uses of
parley
in
War and Peace
- From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came the report of musketry.†
Chpt 2 *
- Miloradovich, who said he did not want to know anything about the commissariat affairs of his detachment, and could never be found when he was wanted—that chevalier sans peur et sans reproche * as he styled himself—who was fond of parleys with the French, sent envoys demanding their surrender, wasted time, and did not do what he was ordered to do.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(parley) a negotiation or discussion -- especially between enemies