faire place
Appearance
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to give way; to make way [with à]
- 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 [...].