‖ entre nous, phr.
(ɑ̃trə nu)
[Fr.]
Between ourselves; in private.
| 1689 Shadwell Bury F. i. ii. 10 I'll tell the more entre nous: But, in the mean time [etc.]. 1705 Cibber Careless Husband ii. ii. 17 Why then, Entre Nous, there is a certain Fille de Joye About the Court here. 1766 Goldsmith Vic. W. I. xii. 112 Entre nous, I protest I like my Lady Blarney vastly. 1819 Keats Cap & Bells xxxiv, And master is too partial, entre nous. 1833 Dickens Let. ? Jan. (1965) I. 14, I suppose the story is to be entre nous. 1889 E. Dowson Let. 29 June (1967) 87 It's sublimely fatuous that I should mind—but entre nous it has quite spoofed me quite. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 613 A religious silence of the strictly entre nous variety. |