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arrière-pensée

[ a-ryer-pahn-sey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, French.

, plural ar·rière-pen·sées [a, -, r, ye, r, -pah, n, -, sey].

arrière-pensée

/ arjɛrpɑ̃se /

C19: literally: behind thought

There was an arriere pensee here too, born in the minds of northern capitalists.

For myself, I am glad now that I never saw the city that was; for I can love the city that is with no arriere pensee.

Here we have the "Arriere pensee" clue, that is, the clue in mental reservation; and here we meet the axiom.

A savage will not assist in packing them, for he fears their heels: the Swiss say mules have always an arriere-pensee.

Baroness Dinati was therefore wrong to suspect old Yanski Varhely of any 'arriere-pensee'.

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