Definition of "entente cordiale" []

• Cordial understanding; specifically, in politics, the friendly relations existing between one government and another.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The change was so marked in our treatment under the two commands that there soon came to be a better entente cordiale between us and Shaler's boys than there was between us and Pearson's."
• "Thus would he establish an entente cordiale among the various cults, and even between religion and a kind of religious sentimentality which, without recognizing God, yet tends towards the Good and the Infinite."
• "You cannot understand the entente cordiale between us"