Entente Cordiale (Fr., 'cordial understanding'), a term which originated, according to Littre, in the French chamber of deputies in 1840–41, and which has been used especially to denote the friendly relations and disposition existing between France and Great Britain.
Entente Cordiale
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 387
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