1. armistice - Noun
2. Armistice - Proper noun
A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThis is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years. Ferdinand Foch
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government. Pietro Badoglio
I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies. Ugo Cavallero
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace. Jacques Derrida
Enemies are right in front of you, you are at war with them, then you make an armistice with them, and all is clear. A traitor must be destroyed, crushed. Vladimir Putin
Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed. George Antheil