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Peace offering   /pis ˈɔfərɪŋ/   Listen
Peace offering

noun
1.
Something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace.  Synonym: olive branch.






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"Peace offering" Quotes from Famous Books



... was ever in, and no wonder, for though it was now put to this mean use, it had for many ages past been the royal seat or palace of the kings of England, until Cardinal Wolsey built Whitehall, and offered it as a peace offering to King Henry the Eighth, who until that time had kept his court in this house, and had this, as the people in the house reported, for his dining-room, by ...
— The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself • Thomas Ellwood

... VOITSKI. As a peace offering I am going to fetch some flowers which I picked for you this morning: some autumn roses, beautiful, ...
— Uncle Vanya • Anton Checkov

... Grey "camp" furtively pushed Ruth Hayton's lunchbox out of the open window, Pearl shared her own lunch with her cousin Ruth. Periwinkle however had regarded the Tull girl with such fine contempt that she gave Ruth a bead ring as a peace offering and Ruth then wrote her name in ...
— Pearl and Periwinkle • Anna Graetz

... box of homemade candy—fudge made with sugar and canned milk—that she had brought for their day's picnic. But it was a peace offering not to be despised. A heavy load lifted from ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall



Words linked to "Peace offering" :   olive branch, offering, offer



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