Parley is a discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of a truce or other matters. The root of the word parley is parler, which is the French verb "to speak"; specifically the conjugation parlez "you(pl) speak", whether as imperative or indicative. Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the expansion of monarchs, a parley, or "talk", was a meeting held between kings and their Chief Retainers.
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- Parley is a discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of a truce or other matters. The root of the word parley is parler, which is the French verb "to speak"; specifically the conjugation parlez "you(pl) speak", whether as imperative or indicative. Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the expansion of monarchs, a parley, or "talk", was a meeting held between kings and their Chief Retainers. Parleys were part of the many changes in Europe, especially regarding governments. These meetings can be attributed to the formation of parliaments, which are derived from a similar root, parliamentum, simply meaning "talking". The internationally recognised symbol for offering parley is a black flag, particularly in the context of shipping. For example a ship at war wishing to enter parley with its attackers may raise a black flag to indicate this. The victim may invoke the right of parley to speak to the captain and arrange a truce in place of being imprisoned or executed. The term was popularized in the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), when the protagonist Elizabeth Swann is captured by enemy pirates, although the motion picture franchise later spells the word incorrectly as "Parlay". In other films of the series, most notably At World's End, the term is often used by Captain Jack Sparrow. The term is frequently used by characters in the HBO drama series The Wire. It was also used by C.S. Lewis in the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader after coming to the Island of the Voices.
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- Parley is a discussion or conference, especially one between enemies over terms of a truce or other matters. The root of the word parley is parler, which is the French verb "to speak"; specifically the conjugation parlez "you(pl) speak", whether as imperative or indicative. Beginning in the High Middle Ages with the expansion of monarchs, a parley, or "talk", was a meeting held between kings and their Chief Retainers.
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