Definition of "olive-branch" []

• A branch of the olive-tree, the emblem of peace and plenty (in allusion to the “olive leaf pluckt off” brought by the dove sent out by Noah). (noun)
• Hence, in allusion to the last quotation plural Children. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Obama's olive-branch strategy may make America safer over the long term."
• "Perhaps most interesting is his description of the maltreatment of returning Vietnam War veterans as "one of the saddest episodes in our history" -- an olive-branch to the right that's in keeping with his larger claim that he's a conciliator and bridge-builder."
• "O Telamon, King of Salamis, the feeding ground of bees, who hast thy home in a sea-girt isle that lieth nigh the holy hills where first Athena made the grey olive-branch to appear, a crown for heavenly heads and a glory unto happy Athens, thou didst come in knightly brotherhood with that great archer, Alcemena's son, to sack our city"