faire place
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
- (transitive with à) to give way; to make way
- 1830, Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir, Livre de Poche, published 1997, page 76:
- La froideur vertueuse qu’elle avait voulu donner à son accueil fit place à l’expression d’intérêt [...].
- The virtuous indifference which she had wanted to give to her welcome gave way to an expression of interest [...].