rapprochement between/with• Would there have been a rapprochement with John Kennedy?• Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism.• The way was therefore open for a rapprochement between Childebert and Chilperic, who now adopted the former as his heir.• The encouraging rapprochement between Tehran and London that we'd heard so much about the previous year was at an end.• This policyincluded a greater rapprochement with the fundamentalist Jamaat-i-Islami.• But not before Jarmusch has established a kind of rapprochement between their two cultures and codes of honour.• Drummond, also an outsider, started Radio 3's rapprochement with the outside world.• Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine.