conversance

• “These are tough, Irish and Italian working-class towns, and anybody who claimed any kind of conversance with Emerson was an alien immediately.”

  Why Read?

• “The requirements include a minimum of 20 years of hands-on experience in the washing and finishing of hand-knotted carpets, 30 years 'experience in carpet management production, carpet experience in post-conflict regions, a minimum of 50 business relationships with high-end retailers in Europe and North America -- and conversance in French, German and Turkish.”

  The Washington Post: U.S. set to award $1 million contract to expand the market for Afghan carpets

• “Given the fact that the newspaper routinely printed stories about its fellow citizens that had only a passing conversance with the truth, no one was entirely certain that the brash young stranger had not come around looking for satisfaction.”

  Simon & Schuster: LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY

• “Since Ms. Farhi's conversance with Iran is partly a result of living and working there for a time, we asked her if she thought Iranians were in denial.”

  What's It Like Waiting Around to Be Bombed?

• “A little less American Eagle and a little more geopolitical conversance would be a good start for the protestors.”

  American Militarism and Le donne di Vicenza | Jewschool

• “Our conversance and disagreement now needs just few ‘type-ins†™ and ‘clicks†™ to be put across.”

  Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core: Official Google Voice App Blocked From App Store

• “Miss Karpe, whose conversance with the details of travelling I envy, mounted her horse on her own side-saddle, dressed in a short grey waterproof, and a broad-brimmed Leghorn hat tied so tightly over her ears with a green veil as to give it the look of a double spout.”

  The Hawaiian Archipelago

• “About my engagement to the serf Sheen, here," Stile said, unpleased about Merle's conversance with his private life.”

  Juxtaposition

• “In the second place, Mr. Mill discerns the limitations of the science more clearly, and acknowledges them more frankly, than, to the extent of our somewhat narrow conversance with such writers, has ever been done before by any one who regarded it with equal affection and reposed in its theories a like faith.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864

• “Readers desiring to push their conversance with the literary history of”

  Classic French Course in English

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