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Liaison

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means a communication or cooperation link between groups, or a romantic affair
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Stage 1 of 2
liaison
French · 1600s
"a binding, a connection"
a binding, connection, from lier (to bind, to tie)
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Stage 2 of 2
liaison
English · 1640s
"a communication link between groups or people"
settled as the English word for a communicative link between groups
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