olive branch

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
olive branch

▶noun an offer of reconciliation.

– origin in allusion to the story of Noah in Gen. 8:1, in which a dove returns with an olive branch after the Flood, taken as a symbol of peace after God's punishment of mankind.

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