单词 | little entente |
释义 | > as lemmasLittle Entente Little Entente n. [named in contradistinction to the earlier alliance between the larger powers of Great Britain, France, and Russia known as the triple entente n. at triple adj. and adv. Compounds 1c, perhaps immediately after French Petite Entente (1920; also attested in English texts from this year)] historical an alliance existing from 1920 to 1938 between Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia (as then constituted); the group of states in this alliance. ΚΠ 1920 Weekly Rev. 29 Sept. 264/2 The Italians regard with distrust the Little Entente of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Jugoslavia. 1966 R. W. Seton-Watson & R. G. D. Laffan in S. Clissold Short Hist. Yugoslavia (1969) x. 196 There were those who felt alarm at the successive departures from the policy of reliance on France and the Little Entente. 2012 C. Reijnen in R. Lettevall et al. Neutrality in 20th-cent. Europe iii. ix. 194 Originally the Little Entente was little more than a set of bilateral treaties. < as lemmas |
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