Crossword clues for parleys
parleys
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parley \Par"ley\, n.; pl. Parleys. [F. parler speech, talk, fr. parler to speak, LL. parabolare, fr. L. parabola a comparison, parable, in LL., a word. See Parable, and cf. Parliament, Parlor.] Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.
We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain.
--Dryden.
To beat a parley (Mil.), to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of parley English)
Usage examples of "parleys".
All that came of three years’ parleys and the Pope’s zeal for peace was an extension of the truce for one year while sparring was resumed.
From the bottom of the slope, where the parleys had taken place, came the report of musketry.
Make sure your pistols are loaded and primed and spanned tight—no one can ever be exactly certain just how these parleys will end up, not when dealing with such volatile, demon-ridden pagans as these.
Make sure your pistols are loaded and primed and spanned tightno one can ever be exactly certain just how these parleys will end up, not when dealing with such volatile, demon-ridden pagans as these.
Jundrak stripped off his black gloves and laid them on the table, a conciliatory gesture in military parleys, indicating that he carried no secret finger weapons.
So successful in many ways were our parleys that some began to take to heart my contention that were they to not all die by way of bloody violence and find as their only grave the belly of some sea-beast, then they had best find arable land somewhere, that they could hold and which would easily nurture them and their get.